XVlll 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



November, 1907 



These Buildings and Over 8000 

 Others are Supplied by The 

 Kewanee System of Water Supply 



HAVE you a water supply problem to solve ? The 

 Kewanee System will solve it satisfactorily and 

 economically. We guarantee successful operation, 

 or your plant may be returned at our expense of freight 

 charges and your money will be refunded. 



All the conveniences and protection of the best 

 city water works are afforded, without the incon- 

 veniences, expense and annoyance which go hand 

 in hand with inferior systems. Our guarantee 

 and the successful operation of over 8000 Kewanee 

 Systems are your assurance of entire satisfaction. 



The Kewanee System 



of Water Supply 



is being used for an almost endless variety of re- 

 quirements, — for city, suburban and country resi- 

 dences, farms, schools, hotels, public institutions, 

 apartment buildings, neighborhood water works, 

 and small towns. 



The technical and practical knowledge of our 

 hydraulic engineers and our intimate knowledge of 

 this subject gained from over ten years' experience, 

 are at your service. 



In the Kewanee System, there is no elevated 

 tank to mar the landscape view, to leak, freeze, or 

 collapse; and no dangerous and inefficient attic 

 tank is required. Air pressure delivers the water 

 to all fixtures and hydrants. 



Write for our complete 64-page illustrated cataloe;ue 

 which explains everything. Ask for catalogue No. 36. 



Kewanee Water Supply Co., Kewanee, 111. 



No. 32 Broadway, New York City. 



820 Marquette Building, Chicago. 



404 Equitable BIdg., Baltimore 



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conditions, as their requirements are quite dif- 

 ferent. 



Seeds that germinate at about the same time 

 should occupy as far as possible the same hot- 

 bed or section ; tall growing varieties should 

 be planted against the back of the bed and not 

 in front of low growing varieties. Each sec- 

 tion of seeds should be separated from adjoin- 

 ing sections with thin, strips of wood which 

 should extend slightly above the surface of 

 the ground. All should be plainly marked 

 with the name and date of sowing, and, where 

 known, the period of germination, and where 

 any single variety of seeds are purchased from 

 two or more florists it will be well to add the 

 name to the labels, as in this way one may 

 keep tab on the different florists' seeds and 

 judge of their merits. 



Fine seeds should be sown on the surface 

 of the ground and covered lightly with soil 

 or fine white sand, the latter being preferable, 

 as it is not so apt to be affected by fungoid 

 growths. A piece of flat board with a handle 

 on one side should be used to press the seed 

 into the ground and should be of a size to go 

 within the different plats. 



Coarser seeds, as the salvias, pansies, asters 

 and the like, should be covered somewhat 

 heavier, or they may be sown in drills of an 

 eighth of an inch deep and the soil drawn over 

 them and pressed down with the board. 

 Large seeds should have a corresponding depth 

 of soil over them, but no seed will require the 

 deep planting of seeds in the open ground ex- 

 posed to sudden changes of the weather, heavy 

 rains and baking sun. 



When the seeds have all been planted and 

 labeled, water with a rubber plant sprinkler 

 or with a whisp broom dipped in water and 

 shaken lightly over the soil — never pour water 

 from a cup or other vessel or use a watering 

 pot unless the rose is fine enough to throw an 

 almost mist-like spray ; cover with newspapers, 

 close the sash and leave until germination 

 takes place. As the various plats of seeds 

 germinate and form leaves the newspaper 

 should be removed from so much of the bed 

 and placed on the top of the sash directly 

 over them. Air will be required by the newly 

 started plants, and the sash may be slightly 

 raised on warm sunny days, taking the pre- 

 caution to protect the opening on the wind- 

 ward side with a rug or bit of carpet. Should 

 the sun go under a cloud when the sash is 

 open it should be closed at once; but should 

 the sun come out brightly when the sash is 

 closed it will be necessary to inspect the beds 

 and ascertain if the temperature is rising be- 

 yond the danger point, as the temperature 

 rises very rapidly inside the sash under the 

 combined influence of the sun and fermenting 

 manure, and an hour's neglect under these 

 circumstances will sometimes result in the 

 loss of the entire contents of the hotbeds. 



The beds should be well protected on cold 

 nights and windy days with rugs or old car- 

 pets, and there will often come a spell of wet, 

 cold weather when the glass will require to be 

 shut continuously for days at a time. This is 

 one of the trying times with the hotbed, and it 

 often taxes the gardener's ingenuity to keep 

 the plants from damping off under these con- 

 tions ; the best remedy is the "ounce of pre- 

 vention," and it will be well not to water, 

 especially at night during cloudy or unsettled 

 weather, unless actually necessary. 



When the plants are up and growing vigor- 

 ously it will be well to remove or open the 

 sash during the middle of the day, and lath 

 screens, made by tacking laths to a frame of 

 any light stuff of a size to fit the beds, should 

 be placed over the beds to protect the plants 

 from the sun, and from marauding cats and 

 dogs. The laths should be about their own 

 width apart, and if the nails with which they 

 are nailed to the frame are clinched on the 



