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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



April, 1908 



Perfect Water Supply Service For 

 Your Country or Suburban Home 



YOU can have a thoroughly efficient water service in your home — service equal to 

 that offered by the best city water supply. You can have an abundant supply 

 of water delivered under strong pressure to the bathroom, kitchen, bedrooms, laundry, 

 lawn, garden, barn — anywhere. 



This service and first class fire protection will be yours, if you install 



The Kewanee System of Water Supply 



With the Kewanee System there is no elevated or 

 attic tank to leak, freeze, overflow or collapse. In- 

 stead, a Kewanee Pneumatic Tank is placed in the 

 cellar, buried in the ground or located in a special 

 pump house. 



The Kewanee Tank rests on solid ground where 

 it can do no damage. It is protected from all ex- 

 tremes in weather, assuring a fresh, usable supply 

 of water during all seasons. It is made of steel 

 plates so that it will last almost indefinitely. 



The water from your own well is pumped into the 

 Kewanee Tank by means of hand pump, windmill, 

 gas engine or other good method adapted to the 

 local conditions. Pumping the water creates air 

 pressure in the tank ; and then the water is deliver- 



ed to all fixtures and hydrants. 40 pounds is a good 

 average pressure in the Kewanee System, which is 

 equal to the pressure from an elevated tank 93 feet 

 high. 



And we furnish complete water supply plants- 

 tank, pumping outfit, valves, gauges, connections 

 and all. 



Over 8,000 Kewanee Systems in successful opera- 

 tion, providing water for country and suburban 

 homes, clubs, hotels, schools, apartment buildings, 

 public and private institutions and towns. 



Our engineering service is free. No charge for 

 specifications and estimates. Everything fully guar- 

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Write for our 64-page illustrated catalog. Please 

 mention this publication and ask for catalog No. 30. 



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Kewanee Water Supply Company, 

 Kewanee, Illinois. 



32 Broadway, New York City. 



820 Marquette Building, Chicago. 



404 Equitable Building, Baltimore. 



710 Diamond Bank Building, Pittsburg. 



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A practical treatise on the subject of protective paint by a practical 

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Details of Building Construction 



A collection of 33 plates of 

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wood of the current year, and should be cut 

 back in the winter or spring. Cutting back 

 increases the growth of new shoots and hence 

 of flower buds. 



On a small place the best way is to prune 

 while the shrubs are in bloom and use the 

 branches cut off for house decoration. 



One should never hesitate to cut all the 

 flowers one wants, as it is always good for the 

 shrubs. 



PLANTING RULES 



Several correspondents have asked about 

 the care of trees and shrubs between their ar- 

 rival in the crate and the time of planting, and 

 for the first few months afterward. It is an 

 important question, because people are often 

 disappointed when, at the end of the season, 

 they find perhaps more than half of the things 

 dead or only half alive. The blame for this is 

 usually put on the nurseryman, or it is called 

 hard luck; but it can be ascribed with more 

 certainty to lack of care in handling before 

 and soon after planting. 



No rules can make one a good planter, be- 

 cause good planters do their work almost by 

 instinct, but a few rules and suggestions for 

 the care of shrubs and trees, from the time 

 they arrive at the railroad station till they 

 are well established, may be a help. 



i. Place the boxes or bales in a cellar 

 (where there is no furnace) or in a cool shed 

 — or if neither can be used, under an ever- 

 green tree. A cool cellar is the best place be- 

 cause it is moist and the low temperature re- 

 tards growth. 



2. Remove cover or open bale at once in 

 order to see that the packing material is damp. 

 It should feel quite wet to the hand. If it is 

 moist but not wet a pailful or two of water 

 can be poured over it. 



3. If packing material is dry and branches 

 shriveled (as may happen after being a month 

 or so on the way) remove the plants from 

 the case and bury root, stem and branch in 

 moist earth for several days. This treatment 

 will often save plants that seem hopelessly dry. 



4. Do not heel the trees in, except in the 

 autumn when it may be necessary to get them 

 in the ground before it freezes. In the spring 

 heeling-in is a waste of time, if carefully done, 

 since it is nearly as much trouble as planting, 

 and if not carefully done nothing could be 

 worse, because the tops are in full air and 

 sun and the roots are not in proper contact 

 with the soil. 



5. When planting take box to the spot to be 

 planted and take out one kind at a time; or 

 if that is not possible, keep the roots covered 

 by the wet moss in a cart or barrow and the 

 tops covered with burlap. 



6. Before planting cut off loose pieces of 

 root and broken or split ends with shears, and 

 cut back the top as may be necessary, 



7. Dip roots for several moments (until 

 the earth clinging to them is soaked) in a tub 

 full of water, or better, full of thin mud, and 

 plant at once. Ordinarily no other watering 

 will be necessary. 



8. Dig a deeper and wider hole than the 

 roots require, put the tree in it ; then let one 

 man hold it upright while two other men 

 shovel in loose earth ; the one who holds the 

 tree meanwhile lifting it up and down and 

 gradually raising it until it is but little deeper 

 than it stood in the nursery. Then all three 

 men are to press (not stamp) with their feet 

 against the soft earth, forcing it into all the 

 interstices, and into close contact with the 

 roots. For further directions see Peter Hen- 

 derson's essay "On the Use of the Feet in 

 Sowing and Planting" in his book on "Gar- 

 den and Farm Topics." 



9. Remember that a short exposure to sun 

 and wind (a strong wind is as bad as the sun) 

 will dry out the roots and kill a coniferous 

 tree. The roots of these are usually sewed in 



