I March, 1912 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
81 
It’s High Time You Got Your 
Heads Together and Selected 
Your Boddington Quality Seeds 
P LAN and plant (on_ paper) your garden now. 
It doubles gardening joys and makes surer 
gardening results. Send promptly for Bod- 
dington’s Garden Guide and browse through it, 
and make your plans and order your seeds. You 
will find this guide so much more than a mere seed 
catalog that you will put it in a safe place for 
ready reference all through the season. In other 
words, it’s a real garden guide. Order your seeds 
early so you can plant them early. Here are 
three special offers — some one of which you will 
surely want. 
Three Unusual Offers *^’pea Quartlu*** 
Paradise Carmine—clear, lovely carmine, 
■waved. 
Constance Oliver — delicate pink, suffused with 
cream, waved. 
Arthur Unwin—rose, shaded with cream, 
waved.. 
Tom Bolton—dark maroon, waved. 
1 packet of the above four prize -winners 
postpaid for $ .35. 
Six Variety Lot. 
Pansy—Boddington’s chal¬ 
lenge, value, 25c per pkg. 
Aster—Novelty single south 
cote beauty, value 25c 
l>er package. 
Larkspur — Boddington’s 
Scarlet Defiance, value 
25c. per package. 
Zinnia — Boddington’s 
Dwarf Double, value 10c 
per package. 
Mignonette—Large, sweet- 
scented, value 5c per 
package. 
Nigella—Miss Jekyll, value 
10c per package. 
Value, $1.00. 
Special price for lot—60c. 
A quarter of a pound of gioantic 
orchid-flowering mixed sweet 
peas for 25c. 
This quarter of a pound 
of Sweet Peas (mailed 
free), contains the finest 
mixture of the Spencer va¬ 
rieties ever sent out by a 
seed house. The range of 
color is from pure white 
to darkest crimson, and all 
intermediate shades. Q-ur 
sales last year were nearly 
5,000 packages. 
We will send you the three tots postpaid, for SI.00. 
Grow Boddington’s Quality Giant Pansies 
this year. They are sturdy free bloomers 
in a riot of unusual color combinations. 
Boddington’s Seeds 
Arthur T. Boddington, 334 W. 14th St., N. Y. 
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Salesman 
Materials 
Co. 
The Fertilizer 
Supply 
All Kinds of Pure 
Fertilizer Materials 
For Home Mixing 
Also complete Fertilizers for general purposes, an^ 
Special Mixtures of any grade made up to 
order, under buyer’s supervision. 
78 Wall Street, New York ’Phone 3958 John 
or quantity. The essentials are a barrel or 
something similar at a height sufficient to 
give the desired pressure; a small supply 
pipe entering near the top, and a discharge 
pipe of larger volume running from near 
the bottom in a syphon curve, the top of 
which is a fraction below the level of the 
intake pipe. The barrel or tank may be in 
the attic or on an elevation in the rear of 
the house, and the supply may be from the 
usual source and constant though small, 
not more than a half inch stream. The 
discharge pipe leading to the geyser must 
be able to discharge at least twice as much 
water in a given time as the supply fur¬ 
nishes. The discharge pipe running as it 
does from near the bottom up in a loop to 
a higher point, then descending, it is evi¬ 
dent that it will empty the barrel when 
once filled. Acting on this principle, when 
the supply pipe which runs a small stream 
has filled the barrel to a point as high as 
the upper bend in the discharge pipe, the 
water begins to how out, and will con¬ 
tinue to do so till the water is out of the 
barrel down to the end of the pipe. Then 
air will enter and the syphon will not act 
again until the water has again reached 
the level of the highest point in the outlet. 
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The geyser apparatus consists of supply and 
discharge pipes and a reservoir 
Since the outlet is larger than the supply, 
water will run out faster than it runs in, 
and the desired frequency of spouts may be 
obtained by increasing or decreasing the 
supply. The duration of the discharge is 
regulated by the size of the barrel, or 
rather by the depth of water. H. F. G. 
A Mushroom Experiment 
IV/T R. REED and his family are great 
mushroom lovers ; but finding them 
very expensive buying, concluded to try 
the experiment of cultivating a bed in the 
cellar this winter. 
Others had done it successfully, why not 
he? So he studied up methods, inquired 
of others, and went about it. 
He lives in a house with a large, airy 
cellar underneath it, with a furnace that he 
can regulate to give quite a uniform atmo¬ 
sphere, which is one of the requirements 
of mushroom propagation. He has a bed 
in a remote corner of the cellar about six 
by nine feet enclosed by boards twelve 
inches wide. This is built with only one 
end against the wall, for he needs to reach 
into the center from both sides to prop- 
THE CENTURY DICTIONARY SAYS 
That by WATER SUPPLY is Meant 
“The providing of water for domestic 
and manufacturing uses in sufficient 
quantity and under favorable conditions, 
not only as to purity but also as to_ pres¬ 
sure, so that it may be available without 
the necessity of carrying it by hand to 
the upper stories of houses or factories, 
and as to storage, so that large quanti¬ 
ties can be used within a short period of 
time, as when needed for extinguishing 
extensive conflagrations.” 
CORCORAN WATER TOWERS 
are guaranteed to fulfill all of these qualifications. 
CORCORAN WATER TOWERS mean an 
unfailing supply with none of the extras necessary 
for an indoor tank and there is no danger of 
flooding the house. NOTE the lower tank. It 
catches all the overflow and holds it in reserve for 
midsummer dry spells and in case of fire. 
CORCORAN WATER TOWERS give instant 
control of water supply for every purpose, the 
house, garden and grounds, outbuildings or in any 
emergency. Cedar and cypress are used in their 
construction, thus making them watertight and 
frost-proof and eliminating all cost of repairs. 
CORCORAN WATER TOWERS are designed 
to harmonize with the surrounding buildings and 
landscape. The housing of the frame can be built 
to contain servants’ quarters, bachelor rooms, bil¬ 
liard room, day-house or garage. They are used 
on many of the finest places in the country. 
WE ALSO BUILD NOISELESS WINDMILLS 
OF EVERY TYPE. 
Write your name and address on the margin by 
this advertisement, tear it off and send us. You 
will immediately receive our free 
TANK, TOWER AND WINDMILL BOOK 
Do it now while you think of it. 
FOR OVER 40 YEARS 
A. J. Corcoran, Inc. 
17 JOHN STREET, N. Y. 
miss CbrooD — IHiss UcerBoff 
37 east 6 otb Street, new York 
Tnterior Decorations 
Harmony, beauty, and correctness of period, 
secured in either simple or elaborate schemes of 
decoration. 
Furniture, rugs, wall-coverings, hangings, etc., 
selected, and Itunp and candle-shades made to 
harmonize with any room. 
Country houses a specialty. 
Every order receives interest and care, from 
the hanging of a picture to the decoration of an 
entire house. 
In writing to advertisers please mention House and Garden. 
