XVI 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



December, 1907 



— Van Dorn — 

 Iron Works Co. 



PRISON, HOUSE®, 

 STABLE WORK 



JOIST HANGERS 

 LAWN FURNITURE 

 FENCING, ETC. 



CLEVELAND, OHIO 



PATE NTEO 



Standing Seam 

 ROOF IRONS 



(^LINCH right chrough th« 

 ^ standing seam of metal 

 roofs. No rails are needed 

 unless desired. We make a 

 similar one for slate roofs. 



SEND FOR CIRCULAR 



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VILLAGE MANSION— For Sale 



SUMMIT STREET PROSPECT N Y. 



Especially suitable for fine residence summer home or sanitarium, 

 finished in quartered and red oaks and containing fifteen rooms 

 ( eight of them bed'-oomsX rwo baths artic gasolene llBbting engine 

 siiflficient for 110 electric lights hoi water heating apparams; 

 cemented cellar Hoor; stationary tubs and fireplaces Coach barn 

 (5 box stalls), carriage barn and cow. bain lot 150 x 200 feet. 

 Tins properly cost $2S OUU. is in De fect condition and may be 

 purchased for $16 000, Terms: S5 000 down; balance on ume. 

 Investigation solicited. 



A. J. BAEHLE & CO., AgenU 

 8 Blandina Street, Utica. N. Y. 



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Five pairs prepaid, $1 00. 



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How to heat 

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By Vapor. 



''What is 'Vapor' ?" 



Our book tells : An improve- 

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 eliminating the objectionable 

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 Vapor Heating Company 



Broomeir.s Vapor System of Heating- 

 121 South Broad Street, Philadelphia 



This 



Colonial 

 Fireplace 



Designed by a 

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Will Not Smoke 



By on r pecnl iar meth- 

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 It goes up the chimney — where it belongs. 



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 Fireplaces for New or Old Houses 



that combine the greatest utility with beauty of 

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Our fireplaces are found in the homes of many men 

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Prices from $18.00 Upwards 



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A garden complete in all its parts may be 

 satisfactory for a year or two, but well cared 

 for plants soon outgrow their alloted ground 

 and must be divided or cut back or have more 

 room provided in some way. Then, too, if a 

 plant is really desirable and worth cultivating, 

 others of the same species will likely prove 

 attractive and desirable, and we will wish to 

 possess as many varieties as possible, for one 

 of the delights of gardening is to possess more 

 or less complete collections of the different 

 species grown, or at least the best of the 

 species. This is impossible in a garden with 

 fixed limits. 



There are several ways of laying out a gar- 

 den so that it may be conveniently added to. 

 One is a succession of beds, either straight, 

 oval, or round, or a combination of all three, 

 which may be duplicated at will, thus extend- 

 ing the garden to any length or width. An- 

 other and favorite plan of my own is to let 

 the beds radiate from some common center, 

 as the spokes of a wheel or the ribs of a fan. 

 The paths form the spokes or ribs, and the 

 intervening spaces the beds. This gives the 

 greatest amount of space available for the 

 growing of flowers, and admits of the easiest 

 and most practical culture. 



If the garden is large — say a quarter of an 

 acre in extent and nearly or quite square, and 

 the beds radiate from one side, starting from 

 the center of the side where a large open place 

 of thirty or more feet in diameter may be pro- 

 vided with garden seats and table, a summer 

 house, or may be the point where the pergola 

 debouches into the garden — then the beds as 

 they recede will widen rapidly until at the 

 further boundary of the garden they will be 

 of considerable extent and may be subdivided 

 by auxiliary paths or planted with shrubbery. 

 This convenience for planting shrubbery is 

 important, for it is often difficult to combine 

 hardy flowering shrubs with flowers, and it is 

 sometimes necessary to do so or abandon the 

 growing of shrubs. Especially is this the case 

 with young shrubs, which require garden cul- 

 ture and will be benefited by growing in the 

 garden for a few years before being trans- 

 planted into permanent places along drives, 

 boundaries or in a regular shrubbery. 



In the radiating beds all classes of planti 

 may be grown without in any way conflicting 

 with each other. Thus bedding plants and 

 annuals may be grown at the narrow part of 

 the beds abutting on the central green; hardy 

 perennials further on, keeping the line of de- 

 marcation clearly indicated ; and in the rear 

 the shrubbery and such ornamental conifers as 

 may be grown in masses. 



Where the garden is large, effective plant- 

 ing may consist of carrying the line of shrub- 



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~ OCHESTER- 



This Pagoda model for 

 hall, porch, den, or mission 

 room, is made of heavy 

 wrought iron, with ruby, green, 

 I amber, or white glass panels, 

 which when lighted create an 

 effect both artistic and beau- 

 tiful. Fitted for oil, ready to 

 iL light, or can be adapted to gas or electricity. 



Height of lantern 14 in., with lo-inch Venetian chain. 

 Send stamp for Lamp Information, knowledge acquired 

 through years of experience. 



dfc^ Eochester Lamp Co., Dept.H, Rochester, N. Y. 



Take of f your Hat to the 



■ — For whether you njedr^HSnd'or Power 

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 oPrnmi 



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StpaUtp and StrVtc* \m the Myen dotfaii— 

 you're alwiyi got yonr mone7*t worth and ■ 

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 3S0-Pa(e Catarog with doM price* ^EE. 

 F. E. MYERS & BRO. Ashland. Ohio 



