HOUSE AND GARDEN 
January, 1913 j 
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MEEHANS’ means GARDEN SERVICE, plus 
Whenever any perplexing problem arises in the beautifying of your home grounds, re¬ 
member that you can secure the service plus of America’s nurserymen by simply addressing 
your request for information to Thomas Meehan & Sons, Germantown, Philadelphia. 
State your problem, we shall answer fully and frankly—back of our answer will be the 
wealth of practical information gathered by a deep rooted organization, 58 years old, drawing 
upon an inexhaustible fund of experience in all parts of the country. An organization that 
knows your needs because it has practical men personally studying the conditions in your sec¬ 
tion, who assist in the selection of trees, shrubs, evergreens and perennials that they know 
are best suited. 
A limited number of 
Rare 
Historic 
English 
Elms 
from such historic points of England and 
Scotland as Tower of London, Stirling Battle¬ 
field, Cambridge University, Ely Cathedral 
and Lichfield (Home of Samuel Johnson), 
etc., are now offered for the first time to the 
American public. 
Not seedlings, but actual living wood from 
the famous old elms grafted to roots of the 
common English elm. A full list of these 
historic trees, with description, terms of sale 
and price—sent on request. 
The Meehan Catalog is authentic, accurate and so de¬ 
finite in its statement of sizes that it makes easy the selec¬ 
tion of trees and really hardy plants for your grounds. 
But it cannot cover the 
rare, unusual plants that 
give your property individuality 
many of which are gathered from the far corners of the 
earth, and thoroughly proved out in our own nurseries 
before being offered for public sale. These items are more 
largely covered in our 1913 Specialty Book “K,” free on 
request. 
The Meehan shipping service assures better delivery to 
distant points — we ship all over the world. 
If you have a new property, less than an acre, write for 
our Special Proposition at once. 
THOMAS MEEHAN AND SONS 
Box 40 Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. 
WATER SUPPLY IN TOWN AND COUNTRY? 
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THE ANSWER IS A 
Corcoran T ank T ower 5™! Windmill 
Will Last a Lifetime 
Economy plus a picturesque combination of beauty and usefulness. 
Built to order to suit your location and your idea of the landscape 
effect of your estate. Write for estimate of complete cost, including 
designing, material and construction. 
A. J. CORCORAN Inc., 17 John Street, NEW YORK 
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Here Is a Water Pumping 
System That Is Automatic 
PUMPS WATER BY WATER POWER 
You can have an abundant supply of water 
in your country home without other cost 
than the low initial expense of installing a 
RIFE RAM 
and Pneumatic Tank Water System 
Water is pumped automatically day and 
night, winter and summer without oper¬ 
ating expense or need of supervision. 
Kife Rams willjmaintain 100 
lb. air pressure in storage tanks 
and develop an efficiency of 60 
to 90% according to conditions. 
Write for catalog giving details 
of this, the simplest and most 
depend¬ 
able way 
of pump- 
ingwater. 
RIFE ENGINE COMPANY 
2700 TRINITY BUILDING, NEW YORK 
JR 
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Wadsworth, Howland & Co., Inc. 
82-84 Washington St. 
Boston, Mass. 
BAY STATE 
New York Office, 156 Fifth Avenue 
DEAUTiFUL Plants de- 
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Pots, Boxes.Vases, Sun¬ 
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Gauoway Terra GdIta Co. 
3218 WALNUT ST. PHILADELPHIA 
the water level in the well, water will flow 
by gravity to the suction end of the pump 
and less power is required to operate it. 
This is not necessary, however, for mod¬ 
ern water supply pumps (as made by lead¬ 
ing manufacturers) are very efficient and 
capable of lifting water several feet above 
the well to the pressure tank. 
Hand pumps can be used for forcing 
water into the pressure tank, or the pumps 
can be driven by power, the latter being 
most ideal of course, as they can be ar¬ 
ranged automatically to keep the tank con¬ 
stantly supplied. 
Electrically driven pumps have proved 
very satisfactory installations, for by 
means of the ingenious electric switches 
governing these most modern of water 
supply outfits the automatic control of the 
pump is assumed. Current is kept turned 
on at the switch at all times. When pres¬ 
sure in the tank falls below a certain point 
the switch automatically closes, which 
starts the electrically driven pump. Pres¬ 
sure, rising to a certain point, reverses the 
operation, opening the switch and stop¬ 
ping the pump. Pressure in the tank is 
automatically controlled by the drawing 
off of water at the faucets. 
In many country houses the water sup¬ 
ply outfit is run by a gasoline engine and 
these installations have proved very prac¬ 
tical though they cannot be automatically 
controlled, since up to the present time 
there has been no method invented to start 
a gasoline engine automatically. With 
new developments in self-starting automo¬ 
bile engines, however, it is to hoped some¬ 
thing along this line will soon be perfected 
for water supply outfits. When a gaso¬ 
line engine is used for pumping it is 
usually operated but a few minutes a 
day, at some stated period. In these in¬ 
stallations it is necessary to use a pres¬ 
sure tank merely large enough to supply 
the house for a stated length of time, a 
period which can he readily computed by 
any reliable manufacturer of water sup¬ 
ply apparatus. 
The claims made by manufacturers of 
apparatus in which the pump or lift is 
located directly at the well is that they 
deliver fresh water directly to the fixtures, 
— water which has not been previously 
stored in a pressure tank. Most of this 
apparatus is operated by compressed air, 
the air compressor located in the basement 
of the house (or in an outbuilding) forc¬ 
ing air into a steel tank (not unlike an or¬ 
dinary pressure tank) from which pipes 
carry compressed air to the “lifting” ap¬ 
paratus located in the well. With an elec¬ 
tric installation the entire process is auto¬ 
matic, a self-acting switch being provided 
to start and stop the air compressor when 
pressure in the tank falls below or rises 
above the point at which the switch is set. 
Lifts used with these compressed air 
outfits are very ingeniously constructed to 
suck water from the well and deliver it 
under pressure to the various fixtures. 
The distance of the well from the house 
makes no material difference, providing. 
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