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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



October, 1907 



Improved Plumbing Appliances 

 for Schools 



It is necessary durinor school vacation that additional 

 plumbing fixtures be installed. U?isa?utary fixtm-es are 

 replaced by others of oh^^^^^^^^^^mhm 



L. WOLFF 



MANUFACTURING 

 COMPANY 



modern construction. 



Our School y Hospital and 

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 PLUMBING FIXTURES 

 especially adapted for 

 school, hospital and factory 

 work, will be a valuable 

 aid in making selections 

 for specifications. 



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GARDEN WORK FOR OCTOBER 



By Eben E. Rexford 



GENERALLY frost will kill the tops of 

 such plants as dahlia, canna and cala- 

 dium about the first of the month. Soon 

 after this takes place, their roots should be 

 dug and prepared for winter storage. Do this 

 on a warm, sunshiny day. Lift them without 

 breaking, and spread them out on boards in 

 the sun. At night cover with blankets or old 

 carpeting. Next day expose them to the sun 

 again, and keep on doing this until the soil 

 easily crumbles away from them. Then cut 

 off their tops to within a few inches of the 

 root. Store dahlias in a cellar where they will 

 be cool, but not very damp. Some persons 

 winter them on the potato bin ; others say 

 they "have no luck" with them if they do not 

 bury them in boxes of sand. I put mine away 

 in baskets, where they will be free from mois- 

 ture, and have no trouble with them. Many 

 lose their dahlia tubers because they dig them 

 and put them immediately in the cellar. If 

 this is done the roots will be full of moisture, 

 and decay is likely to set in very soon after 

 storage, but if they are left to the action of the 

 sun for several days before being put away, 

 they ripen off and much of the excess moisture 

 is got rid of. If the cellar is damp hang the 

 bunches of roots to the timbers overhead. 



Cannas and caladium seem to do best if 

 wrapped in oiled paper and kept in a cool 

 but frost-proof room. Gladioluses I succeed 

 best with if packed away in boxes of bran or 

 sawdust. Keep them where they will be cool, 

 but be sure they do not freeze. 



Tuberous begonias and gloxinias will have 

 completed the work of the season by this time 

 very likely. I leave the roots in the pots of 

 earth in which they grew during the summer, 

 but withhold water until the soil in quite dry. 

 Then 1 set the pots away in a quiet corner, 

 where the temperature is rather low, but even 

 as possible — a closet is a good place if the 

 frost can not get into it — and leave them there 

 until March. 



It is not too late to transplant seedlings of 

 perennials if you are careful to take up a 

 good deal of soil with the plants. 



Go over the roses and get them ready for 

 winter by cutting out all weak growths, all 

 old wood, and every cane or branch that seems 

 superfluous. The plants should not be cov- 

 ered now. Do that later in the season, when 

 cold weather seems likely to set in. Early 

 covering often does a great deal of harm. But 

 the work of pruning and thinning can be done 

 to better advantage now than later. 



It is well to get your material for covering 

 together now. Gather the leaves from the 

 lawn and store them where they will be kept 

 dry. Go over the evergreens and cut away 

 all the branches they can spare, and pile these 

 up for use among the pansies and other plants 

 that require but slight covering. Arrange 

 for litter, straw or whatever you propose to 

 use among the border plants. The work of 

 applying it can be greatly expedited by get- 

 ting ready in advance. 



It is an excellent plan to mark the location of 

 such plants as die entirely away above ground 

 in fall. If this is not done, many of them 

 will be injured when we begin work in the 

 border in spring. 



It is too early to put away such plants as 

 fuchsia, hydrangea, hibiscus and others of sim- 

 ilar habit, which can be safely wintered in the 

 cellar, but it is not too early to begin getting 

 them ready for winter quarters. Withhold 

 water, so that they will not be encouraged to 

 keep on growing. This will do much to get 

 them into a half-dormant condition before they 

 go into storage. It will also facilitate the rip- 



