XVI 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GA 



R D E N S 



July, 1907 



This Catalog — 



■ You 



Solve Your Water 

 Supply Problem 



If you have a water problem to solve, 

 then you should virite for our catalog. It 

 will help you solve that problem to your 

 entire satisfaction, as well as economically 

 and permanently. 



No matter whether your requirements 

 are moderate or extensive; whether you 

 have but one building or a hundred 

 buildings, this catalog will help you out 

 of your difficulties. 



hydraulic engineers. It includes pumping 

 and storage facilities to meet the indi- 

 vidual needs of each purchaser. 



If you install a Kewanee System, your 

 plant will first be designed to meet your 

 exact conditions by our engineering 

 department. Then, you will be protected 

 by a guarantee of satisfactory service. 



Any Kewanee System of Water Supply 

 which does not do everything we claim 



The Kewanee System of Water Supply 



If you live in the city and the pressure 

 is not strong enough, or the water is 

 impure, or the water rental is exorbitant, 

 you will get some valuable suggestions 

 from our catalog. 



If you want information on the water 

 supply subject as it relates to country and 

 suburban homes, public institutions, ho- 

 tels, neighborhood water works, small towns 

 and cities, then you should get this catalog. 



The Kewanee System combines over 

 ten years practical experience in the 

 water supply line, together with the tech- 

 nical knowledge of trained experts and 



for it, may be returned at our expense 

 and its purchase price will be refunded. 



With the Kewanee System, there are 

 no attic and elevated tank troubles, be- 

 cause attic and elevated tanks are entirely 

 disposed of. Old fashioned methods are 

 discarded and modern, scientific princi- 

 ples are utilized. 



The Kewanee System is not an exper- 

 iment. There are over seven thousand 

 of our water supply plants in successful 

 operation. Perhaps there are some in 

 your immediate neighborhood — our cat- 

 alog tells. 



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If you are in the market for a water supply 

 system of any description and for any purpose, 

 write to us. Tell us what you want supplied with 

 water and we will send you our complete gen- 

 eral catalog- by return mail. Ask for Catalog 

 No. 36. 



Kewanee Water Supply Co. 

 Kewanee, 111. 



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Plants obtained in this manner always repro- 

 duce the parent variety. It is not possible 

 for them to "revert." 



It is a good plan to go over the garden 

 and mark all inferior plants for removal at 

 the end of the season. We have so many ex- 

 cellent ones nowadays that one can not afford 

 to give space to anything not above the or- 

 dinary. By throwing out inferior ones from 

 time to time, and replacing them with im- 

 proved varieties we soon have a collection to 

 be proud of. 



Often we find a good plant growing in the 

 wrong place. Decide where it ought to be, 

 in order to do itself justice, and put it there 

 as soon as possible in the fall. We are con- 

 stantly making mistakes with new plants, be- 

 cause we do not understand their habits well 

 enough to put them where they belong. 

 These mistakes must be corrected, if we would 

 have our gardens harmonious in every detail. 

 Not only must their size, their habit, and 

 their season of flowering be considered, but 

 their color, as well. Perhaps this is the most 

 important item to take into consideration. It 

 certainly is with some of them. The lilac 

 perennial phlox is an illustration of this idea. 

 Place it near red, blue, or pink flowers and 

 it gives a most discordant note to the general 

 color-scheme. It doesn't look well, itself, and 

 nothing looks well that comes in contact with 

 it. But put it away from other colors, where 

 it will have nothing but white to keep it com- 

 pany, and straightway it impresses you as be- 

 ing a most lovely flower — as it is. 



Now is the time to make up your basket- 

 plants for next winter's use. We generally 

 wait until late in the season before doing this, 

 and the result is always unsatisfactory. In- 

 stead of having a luxuriant growth of vine 

 and foliage, such as we may expect from older 

 plants, we have a weak little specimen which 

 doesn't show to any advantage because there 

 isn't enough of it to do so. We forget that 

 it takes considerable time to grow good plants. 

 But perhaps, if I remind you of this fact now, 

 you will avoid the mistakes of the past, and 

 profit by them by starting your basket-plants 

 at once. 



This reminds mc that a correspondent has 

 asked me to give her the names of a few of 

 the best hanging plants. Here is a list of 

 kinds that any amateur ought to be able to 

 grow well : 



Tradescantia. Saxifraga sarmentosa. 



Moneywort. German Ivy. (Senecio.) 



Lysimachia. Sweet Alyssum. 



Oxalis, pink and yellow. 



There are other good plants suitable for 

 basket-use, but the kinds I have named will 

 be likely to give the best general satisfaction. 



Hanging plants can only be grown well by 

 giving them all the water they need. Being 

 exposed on all sides, and in a stratum of air 

 considerable higher in temperature than that 

 about the plants on the window-sill, the soil 

 in which they are planted dries out rapidly, 

 and they are likely to suffer from lack of suffi- 

 cient moisture. Some persons tell us they 

 "never have any luck with hanging plants." 

 The reason why, ninety-nine times out of a 

 hundred, is — they don't give them water 

 enough. 



