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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



May, 1907 



Sun-Dials with Pedestals, Complete 



By utilizing our Koll's Patent Lock Joint in the con- 

 struction of the wooden pedestals furnished by us, we 

 are enabled to offer this most attractive feature of the 

 formal garden at a price that places them within the 

 reach of all. 



A special booklet showing a number of designs of 

 pedestals, pergolas, etc., with prices, will be sent free 

 upon request. Ask for Circular "A-26." 



HARTMANN BROS. MFG. CO. 



MOUNT VERNON, N.Y., U.S.A. 



New York Office: 1123 Broadway 

 Western Factory: Henry Sanders Co., Chicago, III. 



MANt'F ACTl'REKS OF 



KOLL'S PATENT LOCK JOINT COLUMNS 



For Pergolas, Porches, or Interior Use. 



CARPENTERS 



in these days of close competition 



Need the Best 

 Possible Equipment 



and this they can have in 



BARNES' 

 Hand and Foot Power 

 Machinery 



W.F.& JOHN BARNES CO. 



567 Ruby Street ROCKFORD, ILL. 



Our New 

 Foot and Hand Power 

 Circular Saw No. 4 



'^HE strongest, most 

 powerful, and in every 

 way the best machine of 

 its kind ever made. For 

 ripping, cross-cutting, bor- 

 ing and grooving. 



Send 

 for 

 our 

 New 

 Cata- 

 logue 



The Varnish that lasts longest 



Made by Murphy Varnish Company. 



1 Plant for Immediate Effect | 



9 NOT FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS 9 



'9 Start with the largest stock that can be secured! It takes over twenty years to 9^ 



fl^ grow such trees and shrubs as we offer. jjjk 



jE We do the long waiting — thus enabling you to secure trees and shrubs that give an 

 jS immediate effect. Send for descriptive and price lists. 



» Andorra Nurseries, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa. m 



^^^^^ HARPER. PROPRIETOR 



It has been found, as set forth in many 

 American Consular reports, that the use of 

 tar of the right kind results in economy of 

 maintenance of upward to tweney-five per cent., 

 wear of the road is to a large degree pre- 

 vented, and damage by water is altogether 

 avoided. Roads which formerly used to be 

 sprinkled several times a day can now be left 

 without any sprinkling, despite heavy auto- 

 mobile traffic, and no dust is created. In this 

 country successful experiments have been made 

 by the Department of Agriculture at Jackson, 

 Tenn., and by several of the State engineers. 

 Almost a million yards of park roads and auto- 

 mobile thoroughfares of America were treated 

 with Tarvia during 1906, and the authorities 

 of several cities have announced a decision to 

 make use of Tarvia on every macadam road 

 under their supervision. 



Tarvia is applied hot to the macadam dur- 

 ing a spell of warm dry weather. It filters 

 into the top surface of the macadam and 

 strengthens the natural bond of the stone, giv- 

 ing it an appearance resembling asphalt and 

 capable of receiving equally heavy traction 

 without sustaining damage. An annual appli- 

 cation of Tarvia is sufficient to keep a road in 

 splendid condition, free from side washing or 

 raveling, and absolutely dustless. 



A Tarviated road can be swept with street 

 sweepers' brooms or flushed with a hose with- 

 out damage, and on many Tarviated streets 

 this is done occasionally to alleviate the dust 

 blown on by wind or carried on the road by 

 regular traffic. 



Wherever roads are properly maintained, 

 especially in city parks and parkways, Tarvia 

 effects considerable saving. 



TILE IN ECONOMICAL 

 BUILDING 



WHERE will the house you own or are 

 building first get shabby? Without 

 doubt where it is subjected to the 

 roughest usage, and to unobserved and insidi- 

 ous decay. The exterior of a building, where 

 it is not composed of the most durable mate- 

 rial, such as stone and brick, slate, etc., has the 

 materials graded to oppose the action of the 

 elements, where it is most persistent. Thus it 

 is, that even though the walls of the building 

 may be of wood or of stucco, the roof and the 

 foundations are made of imperishable sub- 

 stances. The foundation is always of non- 

 absorbent stone, or brick; and in like manner 

 the roof is preferably of mineral matter, slate, 

 burned clay, tile or metal, or at least of as- 

 phalt, which is mineral in origin. 



Without doubt the entrance of the house is 

 the part subjected to the roughest usage, and it 

 hardly requires any argument to convince one 

 of the utility of making the vestibule floor, over 

 which all the traffic of entering and leaving 

 is concentrated, of some imperishable material. 

 Therefore it goes almost without saying, that 

 the vestibule, at least, is to be tiled. It should 

 require no argument to demonstrate the desira- 

 bility of making the walls of this entrance of 

 similarly indestructible material. 



But it is not only wear or direct rough 

 usage which tells upon a house ; an internal 

 decay indicated by unpleasant or musty odors 

 will be found even more objectionable and 

 almost impossible of removal. The worn 

 floor may be repaired, the battered wall may 

 be replastered and papered ; but it is impos- 

 sible to reach with such renovations, the evi- 

 dences of decay indicated by the sense of smell. 



It is therefore of vital importance to dis- 

 cover where the house breaks down in this par- 

 ticular, and loses its value, after but few 

 years of occupancy. 



The considerable results and improvements 



