House and Garden 
A FIRE-RESISTING CEMENT 
A new fire-resisting cement has lately 
been subjected to a careful test in 
Germany, and an official protocol has 
been issued concerning its behaviour, 
bearing the signatures of several archi¬ 
tects, engineers and other experts. The 
trial was conducted in a wooden house 
built for the purpose, the walls and the 
roof of which, and an iron girder support¬ 
ing the roof, were coated with an inch 
thick layer of asbestic. The structure 
was partly filled and surrounded outside 
with a mass of shavings and wood chips 
soaked in petroleum and the whole was 
set alight and allowed to burn for about 
three-quarters of an hour. The fierce 
conflagration was then extinguished by 
means of hose, when it was observed 
that the asbestic showed no sign of either 
cracking or peeling. When it was at 
length chipped off in various places, 
both the iron and wood of which the 
structure was composed were found 
perfectly intact .—The American Con¬ 
tractor. 
FIFTEENTH NATIONAL IRRIGATION 
CONGRESS 
N advance copy of the Official Call 
of the Fifteenth National Irriga¬ 
tion Congress has been received by 
House and Garden. It is issued from 
the Headquarters of the Congress at 
Sacramento, California, and announces 
that this important convention will be 
held in that city September 2-7 inclusive. 
The document recites the purposes of 
the Congress, invites the appointment of 
delegates by organized bodies of all kinds 
and announces special railway rates over 
all railway lines to California. An 
Interstate Irrigation and Forestry Ex¬ 
position, the California State Fair and 
special harvest excursions over Califor¬ 
nia are among the entertainment fea¬ 
tures promised those who attend. 
The purposes of the Congress are 
declared to be “Save the forests, store the 
floods, reclaim the deserts, make homes 
on the land,’’ and all who are interested 
in these objects or in any of them are 
invited to participate in the deliberations 
and thereby contribute to a wise direc¬ 
tion of National policies and develop¬ 
ment of practical methods of conserving 
and developing the great natural re¬ 
sources of the country. 
1 he Interstate Exposition of Irrigated 
Land Products and Forest Products will 
Where Difficult Problems 
of close association of greenhouse 
and dwelling are involved, the 
U-Bar construction with its curved 
eave line, freedom from heavy 
structural parts, and general line 
of grace, fully meets the owner s 
requirements. No greenhouse has 
equaled it for growing qualities or 
freedom from repairs. 
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Designers and Builders 
U-Bar Greenhouses 
Metropolitan Building 
Fourth Avenue and 23rd Street - New York 
NEW BURLAPS 
“Scotia” and “Empire” 
Suitable for High-Class 
INTERIOR DECORATIONS 
Send for Samples 
RICHTER MFG. CO., Tenafly, N. J. 
New York, 20 East 21st Street 
Chicago, 43 E. Randolph Street. 
1 he beautiful is sometimes 
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If the hardware for your home, 
office building, club house or 
hotel is 
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this is Cllways true, as each 
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