HOUSE AND GARDEN 
176 
September, 1913 
Kelsey Heat 
Its Economies — Its Advantages 
T O state that Kelsey Warm Air Gen¬ 
erators save from a third to half the 
coal, over any steam or hot water 
system, seems like a statement so strong 
that it prompts doubt. When anyone asks 
us to “prove it,” we are delighted. It’s 
just the opportunity we want. 
To the money that the Kelsey Warm 
Air Generator saves you, in the coal it 
saves, add the welcome fact that it venti¬ 
lates as well as heats your 
house. Pure, fre9h air drawn 
from outdoors is delivered 
in large volumes to your 
healthy temperature. None of the oxygen 
is burned out of it by scorching, and there 
is just enough moisture in it to be healthful. 
Ventilation without drafts. 
Heat without parching the air. 
If your old furnace needs replacing, it’s 
better to make no decision until after in¬ 
vestigating the Kelsey Warm Air Generator. 
If planning a new house, send along 
your plans and we will advise you concern¬ 
ing the heating require¬ 
ments. In any event, you 
surely will want to know 
all you can about the 
Kelsey. You can buy it 
from your local dealer. 
Send to us for a catalog. 
PEONIES 
- FOR - 
Pleasure and Profit 
Our new illustrated book will give you 
much needed help in making a choice selec¬ 
tion of peonies. Descriptions are to the 
point and not overdrawn. You will not need 
to wade through hundreds of varieties to 
make a selection. Peonies with us are such a 
hobby that we take pride in growing only the 
best varieties. To satisfy us, a peony must 
be of good color and a free and sure bloom¬ 
er, with strong upright stems. Where 
possible, we like additional qualities of 
Form, Size and Fragrance. 
We shall close out this year, at low rate, a 
few varieties considered good, but do not 
quite come up to our ideal. 
If interested in a quantity for landscape 
work or a few of our royal varieties for the 
garden, write for our Peony Book No. 30. 
Our Peony Book Offers 
1. Roots guaranteed true to name at reasonable prices. 
2. Roots well grown and of one-, two- and three-year sizes. 
3. Full cultural instructions for the best restilts. 
S. G. HARRIS, Tarry to wn, N.Y. 
A FENCE 
FOR A LIFETIME 
P OSTS and wire heavily galvanized. 
Won’t get out of line. Wire mesh 
won’t sag. Can’t be climbed from 
either side. Gives absolute protection. We 
are extensive makers of wire and iron 
fences for every place and purpose. Send 
for catalog, and tell us what kind of fence 
you need. 
American Fence 
Construction Co 
100 Church Street, New York 
quality when given a chance to reach full 
maturity. 
Pears, on the other hand, are better if 
picked a few days before they reach a 
mellow condition. Then, if stored in a 
cool place, even the fall varieties will keep 
for a reasonable length of time. Grapes 
are at their best only when they have been 
allowed to hang on the vines until fully 
ripe. They deteriorate rather than im¬ 
prove if picked earlier. Frosts, however, 
may threaten before complete maturity is 
reached, in which case the gardener should 
throw blankets over the vines. 
It is very important to gather up all the 
wormy fruit, in order to lessen the number 
of insect pests the following year. If all 
the bad apples are buried deeply, much is 
accomplished in getting rid of the codling 
moth and the apple magot. 
. E. I. Farrington 
‘‘Whitsun, Roses” 
(Continued from page 133) 
ed the roots apparently, for plants which 
have been badly attacked one season 
spring from the crowns quite as healthy as 
those which have not suffered. Clean 
ground culture and the use of quicklime on 
the soil and the removal of all droopy 
stems will keep the disease down to a min¬ 
imum of harm, if it chances to develop on 
any plant. Insects apparently do not affect 
the peony at all, and in this day of insect 
hordes it is certainly most refreshing to 
find any kind of plant that will grow and 
thrive unworried and without special care. 
Slugs and the larvae of cockchafers some¬ 
times do a little harm, and the rose bug 
does sometimes devour the flowers, espe¬ 
cially the white or lighter pinks. This in¬ 
sect breeds in light or sandy soil, conse¬ 
quently it is not likely to be a serious pest 
on peonies, because they require exactly 
the opposite kind of soil. But, of course, it 
is well to watch the plants as carefully as 
everything else in the garden is watched, 
and to apply preventive measures when 
any sort of bug or worm or plant louse is 
observed. 
Floods: Their Cause and Cure 
F LOODS are caused by the absence of 
foliage — the indiscriminate destruc¬ 
tion of our forests and grassy slopes. 
Snow, ice and water — moisture — have no 
absorbing mass of foliage to soak up the 
flood at melting time, and, the hills being 
hare, the water floods down into the val¬ 
leys and sweeps the soils with it. If these 
hills that are barren of absorbing foliage 
— through the greed of ignorant penny- 
grabbing and dollar-hoarding man—were 
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