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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



August, 1908 



FLOORS 



Ceilings 



A concrete tank erected on estate of Edmund Tatham, 

 Katonah, New York 



Frederick J. Sterner, Architect - - New York 

 De Lancey A. Cameron, Builder - - New York 



Tank designed for storage supply of 15,000 gallons, 

 built entirely of concrete reinforced with Clinton welded 

 wire. Before roof was placed over tank, and during 

 winter months, ice 10 inches thick formed on water 

 stored therein. No cracks or leakage have developed. 



Clinton Wire Cloth Company 



CLINTON, MASS. 



FIREPR0OFINO DEPARTMENT 



ALBERT OLIVER 



1 MADISON AVE., NEW YORK 



washington: rosslyn supply co., colorado building 

 syracuse. n. y.: para00n plaster co. 

 st. lou is : hunkins-willis lime & cement co., south end 18th st. bridge 

 san francisco! l. a. norris, 835 m0na0n0ck building. 

 Seattle: l. a. norris, 909 Alaska building 



Parti- 

 tions 



HOW ARE THE BEAMS 



HELD 



WHERE THEY ABUT 

 THEIR SUPPORTS? 



Are they^ Cut Away" by" 

 Framing ? 



Do You Depend Merely" 

 on Spiking? 



The Best Way is to Use 

 Our Joist Hangers. 



LANE BROS. CO. C3£X£3T) 



434-466 PROSPECT ST. 

 POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. 



great measure on the variety of grass grown. 

 There is no question that the most beautiful 

 lawns result from the use of Kentucky blue 

 grass. This, however, is rather slow to es- 

 tablish, but once secured leaves little to be 

 desired. It will grow close to the trunks of 

 the trees and make a thick, fine sod in their 

 shade — a quality hard to obtain by other 

 means. To this should be added a little 

 sweet vernal grass and a proportion of white 

 clover. This last is invaluable on the lawn, 

 as it spreads rapidly and quickly covers thin 

 and worn out spots. It roots wherever a 

 joint touches the ground, which accounts for 

 its rapid covering of space. It is beautiful 

 when in bloom and as its leaves shade and pro- 

 tect the roots it is not affected by drought as 

 is grass, which has not this protective habit. 



Weeds on the lawn are practically unavoid- 

 able on new sod and they must be persistently 

 dug if perennials, like the dandelions and 

 plantains and dock. Annual weeds, if not 

 allowed to seed, are soon eradicated. There 

 are several weed exterminators on the market 

 which are useful in freeing the lawn and 

 garden paths from weeds. On the paths they 

 are used as a spray, wetting the entire path 

 and so removing at once all weeds above 

 ground, but on the lawn they must be handled 

 with more care as they will kill grass and 

 weeds alike. A large oil can with long spout 

 — a machine oil can will do — may be used to 

 advantage and only a few drops of the poison 

 dropped into the heart of the weed, when it 

 will soon perish, top and root alike. 



The surface of the lawn should be as little 

 broken as possible, certainly it should not be 

 marred by the presence of flower beds, except 

 it be a bed of ornamental grasses, cannas or 

 other highly ornamental planting — the flower 

 garden proper belongs in the rear or at least 

 at the side of the house. A few fine trees and 

 such drives and walks as may be necessary 

 are all that should mar the broad expanse of 

 the lawn. Certainly no broken up bits of 

 planting or isolated bushes calculated to give 

 a spotted, finicky appearance should be at- 

 tempted. 



But well considered planting along the 

 boundaries of the lawn and about the founda- 

 tion of the house have much to recommend 

 them, especially is this true if the planting be 

 of the finer ornamental evergreens and, in the 

 outlying boundaries of the lawn, of flowering 

 trees and shrubs. Too much can not be said 

 against the practise of disfiguring such trees 

 and evergreens as may be present by lopping 

 off the limbs to a height of several feet from 

 the ground. Nature does not form her trees 

 in this fashion, and the better class of nursery- 

 men, following nature's precedent, allow all 

 trees and evergreens to grow, practically, as 

 nature intended they should. It seems to mc 

 that if the ignorant people who so disfigure 

 trees could have a plain statement of the value 

 of fine specimen trees before they had laid ax 

 and saw to them, and then could realize how 

 utterly worthless they have become because 

 of their abuse, they would, perhaps, hold their 

 hand. A really fine conifer may be worth 

 from thirty to fifty dollars, as it grows stately 

 and fine, its branches sweeping the ground, 

 but hacked and maimed it is worth just what 

 it will work up into for firewood — and noth- 

 ing more. The toy trees in a child's Noah's 

 Ark furnish the models, apparently, for 

 their shaping and the results are even less 

 beautiful. 



Cattle Manure 



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Shredded on 

 Pulverized 



Beit for ill Indoor and outdoor work. No bad odor. 

 Easily applied. Dellrered em of Mliionrt Mrac 

 *2.00 per bar (100 lbi.) Write for drculart. 



The Pulverized Manure Op. 

 2/ Union Stock Yard*, Chicago. 



