XV11I 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



May, 1908 



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Kinnear Pressed Radiators 



Selected for 



THE SINGER BUILDING, NEW YORK 



Ernest Flagg, Architect 



THE TALLEST BUILDING IN THE WORLD 



These Radiators were chosen only after the 

 most rigid examination and exhaustive test 06 

 all the radiators in the market, the tests 

 thoroughly demonstrating that Kinnecr 

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 requirement for efficiency and durability. 



In the Tower a/one the use of these Radiators 

 effects a saving of 100 tons in weight. 



The economy of enormously valuable space 

 was another consideration, no radiation on 

 earth requiring so little space as Kinnear 

 Pressed Radiators. 



What applies to the Singer Building applies 

 to any other structure, regardless of size. 

 The small office building, store or residence 

 that installs these Radiators (weighing less 

 than one-third as much as cast-iron) reduces 

 cost of construction and gains materially in 

 space required. 



And remember that when desired, Kinnear 

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On the Wall — Off the Floor 

 Out of the Way 



If you are building you owe it to yourself 

 to investigate this modern radiation before 

 deciding what you will install. 



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thrust them into a clean vegetable mold (bet- 

 ter where there is a mixture of sand), and 

 stamp the dirt down tight over them, leaving 

 . three or four buds out of the ground. They 

 will be well rooted at the end of a year and 

 ready for transplanting to the field. Trimming 

 currants means the cutting out of new shoots 

 and old wornout wood. Leave the good, 

 strong healthy shoots of two or three years 

 age ; and occasionally leave a new shoot. The 

 currant likes all sorts of manures or compost, 

 and feeds readily without getting diseased. 

 To destroy the slug which comes from the 

 sawfly egg, spray with white hellebore and 

 arsenical mixtures combined. A thorough 

 spraying, done just as soon as the worms ap- 

 pear, will generally do the work. A second 

 crop sometimes hatches during the picking 

 season, and these must be sprayed with helle- 

 bore alone. 



The English are decidedly ahead of us in 

 their love for gooseberries; but the American 

 market begins to demand this delicious berry 

 quite up to the supply. I would recommend 

 anyone, who wishes to experiment with them, 

 to start with Columbus, Industry, Red Jacket 

 and Crown Bob. Crown Bob and Industry 

 are foreign sorts, but well acclimated to our 

 soil and climate. On the whole I think I 

 should select, for a single variety, Red Jacket. 

 It is a red berry of the American type, and 

 thrives everywhere. Triumph is an American 

 seedling of the English type, and a noble berry 

 every way. Industry has only one objection, 

 that the berry is covered with rather rough 

 hairs. I have been able to grow some good 

 seedlings, one of them ripening before all 

 other varieties — a rich red and very sweet 

 berry, as well as large. Those who wish to 

 experiment will be very sure to find among 

 wild gooseberries more or less sorts worth 

 transplanting to the garden. Jelly from these 

 wild sorts can hardly be exceeded in rich 

 flavor. 



The cultivation of the gooseberry used to 

 be considered difficult, but if you will plant 

 the rows to run north and south on high and 

 dry land, but not over-dry or barren, you will 

 have no trouble from mildew. Keep the 

 ground well cultivated until the berries will 

 be pulled off by the cultivator. It is not de- 

 sirable to set them with a southern exposure, 

 and in the full blare of the sun, for a pro- 

 tracted hot spell will sometimes roast the ber- 

 ries by bushels. When you trim the goose- 

 berry bear in mind that the fruit, unlike that 

 of the currant, grows on new wood. You 

 will, therefore, cut out more old wood and 

 less new. You will bear in mind that the saw- 

 fly begins to lay its eggs on the gooseberry a 

 little earlier than on the currant, and there 

 you will soonest find the worms. Have helle- 

 more and Paris green ready, and spray at the 

 very earliest moment. Bear in mind also 

 that hens will eat every gooseberry as soon as 

 it forms if allowed access to the bushes. It 

 is the one fruit above all others that they 

 crave. Better inclose your currant and goose- 

 berry garden with a wire fence two or three 

 feet high until after the bearing season. 



In discussing the currant and gooseberry 

 we are considering the two plants which have 

 been found best adapted to pioneering. Our 

 fathers brought them over the water with 

 them, and every pioneer's yard or garden, all 

 the way westward, had the currant and the 

 gooseberry. The birds gathered the fruit and 

 scattered the seed around the woods and open- 

 ings, in this way increasing their own food, 

 and multiplying the varieties for human use. 

 I do not feel that we are wasting our time 

 if we return this favor by planting a good 

 many more bushes than we need for our own 

 use. Count the birds in not only for a few 

 extra cherry trees, but for a plenty of cur- 

 rants and gooseberries. 



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