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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



September, 1908 





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. 



FIREPR00FIN0 DEPARTMENT 



1 ALBERT OLIVER 



1 MADISON AVE., NEW YORI 



WASHINGTON : ROSSLYN SUPPLY CO.. COLORADO IUIIDINQ 

 SYRACUSE, N. Y.: PARA00N PLASTER CO. 

 ST. LOUIS: HUNKINS-WIUIS LIME A CEMENT 00., SOUTH END 18TH ST. SRIDOE 

 SAN FRANCISCO: I. A. MORRIS, 8SB M0NADN0C1 SUILSIN0 

 SEATTLE: L. A. N0RRIS, 909 ALASKA BUHDINO 



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Lane's Trolley 

 Parlor Door Hangers and Track 



THE particularly distinguishing features of the 

 Lane Trolley Door Hanger equipment are 

 the excellence of the bearings and the lateral as 

 well as vertical adjustment of the track. 



Lane Trolley Hangers are made in both the 

 rigid and adjustable pendant styles and with both 

 single and double trucks. All are fitted with 

 machined and hardened bearings as shown and 

 in all the various details the quality of Lane 

 products is maintained, thus virtually placing 

 them in a class by themselves. 



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section ball bearing in lane 

 trolley hangers 



LANE BROTHERS COMPANY, ( 



434-466 Prospect Street, Poughkeepsie, N. Y 



The Door Hanger^ 

 Manufacturers / 



tree is of fine quality. Hubbardston Nosuch 

 gives a very good percentage of clean apples, 

 and Baldwins in the open lot give me also a 

 very fine percentage of marketable apples. The 

 Spitzenburg is wonderfully loved by all sorts 

 of insect pests; the Jonathan is another; and 

 the Spy is very far from being immune. This 

 matter should be studied carefully by those 

 who intend to plant orchards. 



A list of varieties for all sections of the 

 country is impossible. A fairly good list for 

 the apple belt, reaching from Georgia to the 

 Lakes, would be, for summer, Yellow Trans- 

 parent, Sherwood's Favorite (or Summer 

 Strawberry), Red Astrachan — adding for 

 table use Summer Rose. A good list for 

 autumn would be Gravenstein, Duchess of 

 Oldenburgy Strawberry, Jefferies, and Fa- 

 meuse or Snow — adding for cooking and mar- 

 ket the Shiawassie Beauty. For winter 

 varieties you can hardly omit Baldwin, 

 Spitzenburg, Mcintosh Red, Northern Spy, 

 Rhode Island Greening, Jonathan, and 

 Wagener for a filler. The King apple should 

 be added in sections favorable to its growth, 

 and in the Hudson River Valley, and some 

 other sections, the Newtown or Albemarle 

 Pippin should have prominent place. This 

 list for a very small place could be reduced to 

 Red Astrachan and Sherwood's Favorite; 

 Gravenstein and Dutchess; Baldwin, Mcin- 

 tosh and Northern Spy. I should like to add 

 a list of indispensables for those who have 

 become apple experts. This list should surely 

 include Stuart's Golden, Scott's Red Winter, 

 Wismer's Dessert, Walter Pease, Princess 

 Louise, Delicious and Mcintosh. For sweet 

 apples the old Pound Sweet is growing 

 in favor, and for late winter nothing is better 

 than Danchy Sweet and Sconondo (if you can 

 get it. Lady's Sweet is superb in some sec- 

 tions — not everywhere. The Mother apple 

 should rank absolutely first for eating, if you 

 get a good stock. Grimes' Golden and Jona- 

 than stand foremost on light soils and in 

 Colorado. I recently received a box from 

 Stark Brothers, Missouri, containing samples 

 of Delicious, Black Ben, and Stayman's Wine- 

 sap. They were simply superb as to quality 

 and beauty. Unfortunately we can not grow 

 Stayman's Winesap, neither Jonathan, in the 

 Eastern States, equal to such samples. 



The rapid increase of suburbanism should 

 lead to a rapid increase of small home or- 

 chards. A country home of five or ten acres 

 will do well to give at least one acre to apples 

 and pears. After berries no other crop will 

 more surely reduce the annual outgoes and 

 ultimately increase the income. From a sani- 

 tary standpoint and from an esthetic the argu- 

 ment is equally strong. You will find that 

 you can not purchase as good fruit as you 

 can raise. It is bad enough in the cities to 

 sustain a diet without fruit, but in the country 

 it is intolerable. If you have agreeable neigh- 

 bors you can establish a sort of exchange sys- 

 tem. One can grow all the choicer vegetables ; 

 another the berries; a third the plums and 

 cherries; while a fourth supplies the apples 

 and pears. However, a home of five acres 

 ought, inside five years, to have a surplus for 

 market. The orchard should bring in a nice 

 income besides feeding the family and putting 

 poetry into common work. Plant a dozen 

 varieties for succession of apples, and a half 

 dozen of pears, with enough plums, cherries 

 and berry fruits, and you may snap your fin- 

 ger at the butcher. 



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