HOUSE AND GARDEN 
August, 1911 
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Wearing Quality— 
insuring satisfactory wear at the 
vital points such as latches, 
hinges, window' fastenings, etc., 
and saving repair bills. 
Safety—Sargent Locks are famed 
for secunty. 
Ask your architect to specify 
Sargent Hardware and aid you 
in selecting harmonious designs. I he Sargent 
Book of Designs and Colonial Book will be 
sent free on request. 
SARGENT & COMPANY 
14-2 Leonard St.. New York 
is the choice of experienced architects 
and builders who take into account 
every quality that building hardware 
should possess: 
Artistic Harmony—Sargent De¬ 
signs include distinctive styles in 
every school of architecture; 
Beauty of Finish—obtained by 
most careful workmanship and 
use of fine metals; 
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Plant for Immediate Effect 
Not for Future Generations 
Start with the largest stock that can be secured. It takes over twenty years 
to grow such Trees and Shrubs as we offer. 
We do the long waiting— thus enabling you to secure Trees and Shrubs that give 
an immediate effect. Price List Now Ready. 
ANDORRA NURSERIES B H°. X PH IlTdELPH 1A , L PA. 
WM. WARNER HARPER, Proprietor 
capacity can be made for a few dollars. 
The barrels should, however, be kept un¬ 
der cover, and never allowed to remain 
long empty, on account of shrinking and 
consequent leaking. Where a consider¬ 
able amount of ground is to be wet, a 
power pump will be required. A good 
pump capable of throwing 800 gallons an 
hour against no pressure, can be bought 
for $40. Small gasoline engines, of am¬ 
ple power for operating such a pump, cost 
from $29.50 to $75 or $100 according to 
make. An electric motor will cost about 
$75, but second-hand ones may often be 
had at low prices at receivers’ sales, if 
one happens to be within reach of a large 
city. Iron pipe, suitable for water under 
low pressure, can be bought at from four 
to fifteen cents a foot, according to size, 
and whether it is second-hand or new. 
The water may be applied either by an 
automatic sprinkler, a nozzle, or by flow¬ 
ing from the open hose, where there is 
not sufficient force to wash out the soil 
to an injurious degree. In large market 
gardens, overhead piping systems, so ar¬ 
ranged that a regular rain may be turned 
on or off at will, are often used, but they 
would hardly pay for the home garden. 
The water should be applied towards 
evening, or in cloudy weather; never in 
tbe bright sun if it can be helped. The 
most important thing is to have the 
ground thoroughly soaked. It is, of 
course, possible to overdo it, but one is 
not at all likely to. Water sufficient to 
cover the soil an inch deep — that is, equal 
to a one-inch rainfall — will not be too 
much when the ground is dry. One good 
soaking a week, or two for such moisture- 
loving plants as celery, cabbage, cauli¬ 
flower, etc., will be sufficient in ordinary 
dry weather. 
Do not, if you do use irrigation, forget 
the importance of moisture-conserving 
cultivation. Irrigation will not take the 
place of cultivation: it should be used as a 
supplement to it, not as a substitute for it. 
Remember that with irrigation you 
gain control of the most uncertain and 
most important factor of outdoor gar¬ 
dening, the moisture supply. You can 
plant a smaller garden, and make it pro¬ 
duce surer and bigger results. 
Getting Acquainted With the 
August Flowers and Shrubs 
(Continued from page 92) 
with flowers six inches across. 
Gold-banded Lily (Lilium auratum), 
the showiest and largest of the true lilies. 
The flower is pale yellow with a golden 
centre band and crimson spots. Unfortu¬ 
nately the bulbs die out in a few years, but 
they are well worth renewing even at their 
comparatively high price. 
Red-hot Poker Plant (Kniphofia 
aloides ), a gorgeous plant bearing long, 
erect cones of scarlet and orange flowers, 
one hundred or more to its five-foot stalk. 
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