XIV 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



March, 1908 



Refinish Your Furniture 

 Woodwork and Floors 



F^TkT^Y^ Sample of 

 hl(Hh Johnson's Wood Dye 



^ It 1 y 1 y for the artistic coloring 

 of all wood, Johnson's 

 Prepared Wax for polishing the wood and John- 

 son's Electric Solvo for removing old finish, also 

 48-page color book giving instructions. See offer 

 below. 



Johnson's Wood Dye £.-££ 



purpose of properly and permanently coloring wood. 



It penetrates deeply, bringing out the grain, greatly increasing its beauty. Our Wood Dye is 

 entirely different from colored varnishes, oil stains and other finishes offered for this purpose. 

 If the color is in combination with a varnish, oil or finish, or the color is applied over old finish, the 

 wood cannot absorb the color and is simply coated over, not dyed. W^od that is properly and per- 

 manently colored always absorbs the color. Johnson's Wood Dye can be easily applied, dries 

 quickly and does not rub off. It should always be applied upon the bare wood followed by Johnson's 

 Prepared Wax for the most satisfactory, artistic and beautiful effect, but any other finish may be used. 



For refinishing furniture, woodwork and floors, Johnson's Electric Solvo will immedi- 

 ately remove old finish, leaving the wood bare and clean ready for the dye. Full instructions given 

 in our booklet, "The Proper Treatment for Floors, Woodwork and Furniture.' ' 



Johnson's Wood Dye 



For the Artistic Coloring of All Woods" 



IS MADE IN THE FOLLOWING SHADES: 



No. 126 

 No. 123 

 No. 125 

 No. 130 

 No. 131 

 No. 132 

 No. 140 



Light Oak 

 Dark Oak 

 Mission Oak 

 Weathered Oak 

 Brown Weathered Oak 

 Green Weathered Oak 

 Manilla Oak 



By mixing two or more shades any colors may be obtained, 

 wood alcohol : to darken add Flemish Oak No. 172. 



No. 128 Light Mahogany 



No. 129 Dark Mahogany 



No. 110 Bog Oak 



.•Jo. 121 Moss Green 



No. 122 Forest Green 



No. 172 Flemish Oak 



No. 178 Brown Flemish Oak 



To lighten use 



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"Tlw Wood-Finishing Authorities," 



Modern I 

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'lumbing 

 'ated 



SOME OF THE SUBJECTS TREATED 

 Connections, sizes and all working data for all 



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, 

 Use of Flushing Valves 

 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 o£ Underground Mains and Service Pipes 







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pictures. This effect is particularly agreeable 

 in bedrooms that are constantly occupied and 

 where the repetition of figures all over the 

 wall is wearying. 



The old style of border was an eighteen- 

 inch strip of paper on which a floral pattern 

 was printed in colors to harmonize with plain 

 paper that was used on the lower wall. Some- 

 times the border was only nine inches wide. 

 When someone originated the novel idea of 

 cutting out the design from the border and 

 pasting it below the picture molding, it be- 

 came so popular that certain patterns were at 

 once brought out which could be treated in 

 this way. Sometimes the border consists only 

 of a looping of flowers or ribbons that, against 

 a delicate-toned paper, gives the finishing 

 touches to a simple yet artistic decoration. 



GARDEN WORK ABOUT THE HOME 



{Continued from page 120) 



exploration. Nothing is more provocative of 

 discussion and dissent than such marking of 

 things with stars; no two people can possibly 

 agree about the things that are included, nor 

 can anyone except the maker of the list ex- 

 plain why others of equal or surpassing merit 

 (as they seem) are left out and unstarred. 



But such lists are always amusing, whether 

 they be of books or of trees, and carry with 

 them the challenge: "I think these are best, 

 and I know you will agree with me." 



We will suppose that the place for which 

 we want our trees and shrubs is a small one in 

 a village — a lot of seventy-five by one hundred 

 and fifty feet — and that the greatest effect of 

 size is to be sought by planting about the foun- 

 dations of the house and along the boundaries, 

 leaving an open lawn, and that large trees 

 which would interfere with the best growth 

 of shrubs and would shade the house too much 

 are not desired. 



We will suppose also that much quiet 

 beauty, lasting the year round but changing 

 with the seasons, is expected, and that the 

 place will be easy to care for, needing little 

 labor, and that unskilled; except for the per- 

 sonal attention given by the owner when the 

 pleasant days of spring and autumn tempt one 

 to outdoor work. There is to be no garden 

 and no flowers except those of the shrubs and 

 whatever bulbs may be grown among them or 

 in the grass. 



This is the sort of place which many sub- 

 urban dwellers who care little for gardening, 

 but who want a place to look well kept and 

 pretty, would like; and, indeed, such treat- 

 ment would relieve most of the monotonous 

 bareness of our suburbs in March; for it is in 

 winter as well as in summer that shrubs are 

 needed. Then the surroundings of our houses 

 with the leafless trees and the dull, dead grass 

 seem very cold and ugly, but shrubs are al- 

 ways beautiful with their slender branches, 

 sometimes tinged with red and yellow and 

 with berries still hanging to attract the birds. 

 A mass of shrubs gives relief and aerial per- 

 spective to the winter scene, 

 i. Daphne cneorum. 



2. Pieris floribunda. 



3. Kalmia latifolia. 



4. Rhododendron maximum, and hybrids. 



5. Azalea vaseyi. 



6. Deutzia crenata. 



7. Spiraea van houttei, S. prunifolia, S. 



thunbergi. 



8. Rosa rugosa. 



9. Rosa setigera. 



10. Berberis thunbergi, B. vulgaris, B. 



sinensis. 



11. Lonicera tartarica, L. ruprechtiana, L. 



morrowi, L. standishi. 



12. Philadelphus coronarius. 



13. Exochorda grandiflora. 



14. Forsythia fortunei, F. suspensa, F. viri- 



dissima. 



