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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



October, 1908 



HEATERS 



GURNEY HEATERS, measured by quality, economy and 

 efficiency, are the standard of value. 

 <]] They are made of the best materials and by the highest prads of 

 mechanical and engineering skill; constructed under these conditions, 

 they are unequaled in durability. 



<D There is also complete combustion of fuel and no waste of heat 

 units, thus insuring great economy. 



«I The GURNEY HEATER, made either for hot water or steam, 

 distributes the heat evenly and with a certainty that gives complete 

 satisfaction to the user. 



<| Easily installed in old or new buildings they appeal to those who 

 want to eliminate extra care and waste, or who want greatest value 

 for amount expended. 

 *J Send for illustrated catalogue. 



GURNEY HEATER MFG. CO. 



188-200 Franklin St., Corner Pearl St., BOSTON, MASS. 

 NEW YORK BRANCH, 12 East 42d Street 





WATE F^ 



For Your Country or Suburban Home 



An Abundant Supply Delivered Under 

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YOUR country or suburban home can be provided with all the sanitary 

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 delivered under strong pressure to all fixtures and hydrants— to the 

 bathroom, kitchen, laundry, lawn, garden, barn— anywhere. 



This service will be yours, day after day for a lifetime, if you install 



The Kewanee System 



of Water Supply 



With the Kewanee System, there is no 

 elevated or attic tank to freeze, over-flow, 

 leak or collapse. Instead, a Kewanee 

 Pneumatic Tank is located in the cellar or 

 buried in the ground, and the water is 

 delivered by air pressure. 



Over eight thousand Kewanee Systems 

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The Kewanee System is not an imita- 



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 of air pressure instead of gravity pres- 

 sure. Avoid cheap imitations. Look for 

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 Write for our complete illustrated catalog 

 No. 36. 



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Kewanee Water Supply Company, Kewanee, 111. 



820 Marquette Bldg., Chicago, 111. 



1566 Hudson-Terminal Fulton-Bldg., 50 Church St., New York City. 



710 Diamond Bank Bldg., Pittsburg, Pa. 



Gardens Old and New. The Country 

 House and Its Garden Environments. 

 Third Volume. Edited by H. Avray 

 Tipping, M.A. ( London : Country Life 

 Office. New York : Imported by Charles 

 Scribner's Sons.) 1908. Folio; pp. 

 346. Price, $12.00, net. 

 This is the third volume in this superb 

 series which has come to the reviewer's desk. 

 The beautiful "Country Life" is always a 

 welcome visitor, and the present volume in- 

 cludes some of the most interesting illustra- 

 tions which we have ever seen relating to the 

 more pretentious English country houses and 

 gardens. There is an indefinable charm and 

 beauty about the really old, substantial Eng- 

 lish country halls and manors which it is im- 

 possible to duplicate. The present volume 

 contains an extraordinary collection of castles, 

 priories, manors, courts, parks, and other well 

 known types of the aristocratic home. The 

 book, which is beautifully printed on the finest 

 coated paper, is most fascinating, and gives 

 the American reader a longing for the stately 

 balustrades, clipped yew trees and that green- 

 est of the green sward of old England. The 

 selections of houses and gardens in this third 

 volume has been a most happy one, and we do 

 not notice a single instance that has any 

 mediocre features. Castle Howard, York- 

 shire, and Lime Hall, Cheshire, are about the 

 most pretentious edifices which are shown in 

 the present volume. The writer has for years 

 been studying "Stately Homes in. England," 

 and he feels justified in giving high praise to 

 this truly admirably and extremely beautiful 

 book. 



Southern Agriculture. By F. S. Earle. 

 New York: TJie Macmillan Co. Pp. 

 8+297. Price, $1.25. 

 This book deals exclusively with the con- 

 ditions and crops of Southern agriculture. It 

 seeks to do for Southern agriculture what 

 many other books have done for Northern crop 

 growing. If its scope to Northern readers ap- 

 pears somewhat restricted, it should be re- 

 membered that it treats of a very large region, 

 and is concerned with some of the most im- 

 portant crops raised in the United States. It 

 appeals, therefore, to a very large class of 

 agriculturalists who have long needed a text- 

 book adapted to their special requirements. 

 The author treats his subject in a thoroughly 

 able and competent manner and has written a 

 book of great practical utility. 



BULBS FOR FALL PLANTING 



By Ida D. Bennett 



FALL is the one time of the year in which 

 successful plantings of bulbs may be 

 made. Spring-planted bulbs rarely 

 succeed, certainly they do not give any re- 

 turns the first year. I am aware that nearly 

 all floral catalogues offer more or less stock 

 of lily bulbs, but these are bulbs which were 

 left over from the previous fall, and having 

 been out of the ground for six months or 

 more are greatly depleted in vitality if not 

 absolutely worthless. Occasionally one finds 

 certain lily bulbs which will make immediate 

 growth when planted at this season, and while 

 not blooming the first summer, yet retain and 

 conserve enough energy to make growth for 

 another year. But the nearer one can come 

 in the planting to the lifting of the bulbs from 

 the ground the better. 



