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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



January, 1908 



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SOME OF THE SUBJECTS TREATED 

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Plumbing Fixtures and Groups of Fixtures 

 Traps — Venting 



Connecting and Supporting of Soil Pipe 

 House Trap and Fresh-Air Inlet 

 Floor and Yard Drains, etc. 

 Rain Leaders 

 Sub-soil Drainage 

 Floor Connections 

 Roof Connections 

 Local Venting 



Bath Room Connections [etc. 

 Automatic Flushing for Factories, School Houses, 

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 Modern Fixtures for Public Toilet Rooms 

 Durham System 



Plumbing Construction without use of Lead 

 Automatic Sewage Lift — Sump Tank 

 Disposal of Sewage of Underground Floors of 



High Buildings 

 Country Plumbing 

 Cesspools 



The Electrolysis of Underground Pipes 

 Septic Tanks and Sewage Siphons 

 Pneumatic Water Supply, Rams, etc. 

 Examples of Poor Practice 

 Roughing — Testing 



Continuous Venting for all classes of Work 

 Circuit and Loop Venting 

 Use of Special Waste and Vent Fittings 

 Cellar Work 



House Drain — House Sewer — Sewer Connections 

 Plumbing for Cottage House 

 Plumbing for Residence 

 Plumbing for Two-Flat House 

 Plumbing for Apartment Houses 

 Plumbing for Office Building 

 Plumbing for Public Toilet Rooms 

 Plumbing for Bath Establishment 

 Plumbing for Engine Houses 

 Plumbing for Stables 

 Plumbing for Factories 



Plumbing for School Houses, etc. [by Electricity 

 Thawing of Underground Mains and Service Pipes 





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bath, allowing them to remain submerged 

 about half a minute. It would seem to the 

 amateur that* such a bath must kill almost 

 any plant, but even such tender plants as the 

 begonia are not injured by it. Such a bath 

 kills off most of the insects, and puts the plant 

 in a condition which will enable you to keep 

 it in health, if, after this "heroic treatment,'' 

 you do not neglect to make liberal use of 

 water, daily, in the form of a spray, and by 

 evaporation. Always have some evaporating 

 from stove or register. Shower your plants thor- 

 oughly, and regularly, and "between times," if 

 it is convenient to do so. Do not be satisfied 

 with a whisk-broom sprinkling. That is 

 good, as far as it goes, but the trouble with 

 it is — it doesn't go far enough. The aim 

 should be, to get moisture enough to the hid- 

 ing-places and haunts of the spider to make it 

 so uncomfortable for him that he cannot do 

 much harm. A dip-bath, three or four times 

 a week, is advisable, because this makes it 

 sure that no part of the plant fails to get wet, 

 and wetness is what the spider objects to. 



The aphis is found in most window-gar- 

 dens, and if not checked promptly, it will 

 do much damage. It breeds with astonishing 

 rapidity, and when one is discovered to-day 

 you may safely reckon on finding hundreds, 

 if not thousands, next week. It appears to 

 swarm, so rapidly and so prolifkally does it 

 propagate itself. Most amateurs are greatly 

 frightened when its presence is discovered, but 

 there is really little cause for alarm, if one 

 is willing to take the trouble necessary to rout 

 it. The most effective remedy I have ever 

 tried is an infusion of tobacco, sold by all 

 florists under the name of Nikoteen. This 

 is a very highly concentrated extract of the 

 nicotine quality of the tobacco-plant. All one 

 has to do to prepare it for use is to add a 

 little of the extract to water. It should 

 be applied as a spray, or, if one prefers to do 

 so, infested plants can be dipped in it. This 

 is, perhaps, the best method of getting rid of 

 the insects at once. After-applications will 

 keep them away altogether, if given regularly, 

 or so keep them under control that they do 

 very little harm. The thing to do, is to 

 get rid of them wholly, for, so long as any 

 remain, they will make continuous effort to 

 take possession of your plants, and if you 

 slacken up a little in your preventive treat- 

 ment, they will, before you are aware of it, 

 have increased to such an extent that you 

 will have to fight the war of extermination 

 over again. The best thing to do, after once 

 getting rid of them, is to make use of the 

 nicotine bath so frequently that they have no 

 chance to re-establish themselves. This in- 

 secticide has none of the nauseating features 

 peculiar to fumigation. The latter often 

 sickens a person of delicate stomach, and the 

 intensely dissagreeable odor of the burning 

 tobacco will penetrate to all parts of the house, 

 and cling to everything with which it comes 

 in contact with a persistency which makes 

 many airings necessary before it can be com- 

 pletely eliminated. The idea seems to prevail, 

 to a considerable extent, that fumigation is 

 the only really effective method by which the 

 aphis can be controlled, but such is not the 

 case, as the amateur will soon admit if he 

 follows the instructions I have given above. 

 It is absolutely necessary that one's plants be 

 kept free from insects in order to secure best 

 results from them. Keep that in mind. 



Careful watering is important. This 

 means giving the amount of water each plant 

 needs, no more and no less. It has been said 

 so often that it seems hardly necessary to 

 repeat it here, that the only rule to follow is— 

 to apply water when the surface of the soil 

 has a dry look, and then give enough to 

 thoroughly saturate all the soil in the pot. 

 This is a general rule, which must be modified 



