XVI 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



December, 1908 



A warm home makes 

 happy guests 



To put the hostess at her 

 best and the guests at their 

 ease, modern hospitality re- 

 quires that the home shall be 

 comfortably, healthfully, and 

 cleanly warmed. All heating 

 methods other than Hot- 

 Water and Low -Pressure 

 Steam are rapidly passing 

 out of fashion. At the pres- 

 ent attractive prices, and the 

 many economies and benefits 

 brought about through their 

 use, no home-lover need 

 longer put off the purchase of 



ADVANTAGE 16: 

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 by automatic draft 

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 that there is no 

 overheating or 

 fuel waste in main- 

 taining a low fire 

 for the chill days 

 of early Fall and 

 Spring. 



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 price —owner gets full money back. Thousands are moving each year into new 

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 fuel economy, and labor-saving of these outfits. Ever hear of any one of these 

 wanting to go back to the use of old-fashioned heating methods? 



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judge of the fruit, one might become interested 

 in changing and increasing the varieties by 

 grafting, until at last each branch bears a 

 different kind of fruit. 



THE WHITE PINE 



In reply to "Starr," Fairfield County : 

 The best evergreen for you to use in quan- 

 tity is the white pine, which, as far as we can 

 judge, formed a large part of the primeval 

 forests in New England, but now is only 

 seen in a few young groves or standing singly 

 where it has been left at the edge of the 

 clearing. 



It was the first tree to go when we began 

 to build houses, and ever since it has been the 

 most used and most valuable soft wood. All 

 that are left are being used for match blocks. 



No other tree adds so much to the winter 

 landscape of New England, and in districts 

 where it is too scarce to count (as in Fair- 

 field County), we miss its strong tone in 

 winter and its rugged outline in summer. 



It assumes all characters, from the rugged 

 storm-tossed giant to the small and tender 

 child of the woods. Its color is a pure blue- 

 isli green ; the shadows between its horizontal 

 branches are deep and mysterious. 



A grove of pure white pine is wonderfully 

 quiet and peaceful. No footfalls are heard 

 on the soft bed of needles, no branches are 

 shaken and swish back as one passes, and the 

 gentle murmuring of the wind through the 

 branches far above makes the silence more 

 intense, and the multitudinous trunks, ranged 

 row upon row and each like its fellow, are 

 bewildering and overpower one's conceptions 

 of space. 



The effect of such a wood at twilight or 

 sunset is grand, the blackness around one 

 makes the fading west ten times more bril- 

 liant than under the open sky. As a wind- 

 break nothing is better than the pine, and 

 near the house (at the northwest, of course) 

 they are especially pleasant, because they are 

 never silent. Every zephyr whispers to a pine 

 tree, the fair winds speak joyfully to it, and 

 the gale howls through it in abandon. 



The fragrance of the white pine is more 

 delicate than that of the other pines, though 

 no less delightful. 



The white pine will grow anywhere; on a 

 sandy plain, a rich meadow, or a rocky hill- 

 side, and it is easy to plant, either by sowing 

 the seed or planting nursery-grown trees of 

 almost any size. 



Coulter i Westhoff. Architects. Saranac Lake 



Beautiful Silver Gray and Moss 

 Qreen, Italian Tile Red, Etc. — 



These are the artistic colors pro- 

 duced on your Bungalow or 

 Cottage by using 



DEXTER BROTHERS' 

 English Shingle Stains 



No disagreeable odor. 



Samples of colors on wood sent FREE 

 Dexter Bros. Co., 103 & 105 Broad St., Boaton, Mass. 

 Agents: H. M. Hooker Co.. 128 W. Washington St.. Chi- 

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