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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
January, 1913 
Compare the cost of plumbing fixtures with the 
% total cost of your building. Then realize the actual 
yfi value that well-designed, durable bathroom equip- 
| | ment will add to its total value in future—to say 
nothing of added comfort, or saving in repairs. 
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Fixtures deserve first consideration in your specifica¬ 
tions and estimates. 
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Have earned a reputation 
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during 110 years of suc¬ 
cessful business growth. 
Our 1913 catalog will have some 
special features of interest to 
all who “Farm” and “Garden.” 
A postal will bring it. 
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no years in business in New York City 
33 Barclay Street - - New York 
The Berry “Hobby” 
Pays Its “Keep” 
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scribes Macatawa, the new hardy blackberry with 
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many other berries. Contains valuable Berry in¬ 
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A. MITTING, Berry Specialist 
BERRYDALE EXPERIMENT GARDENS 
House Ave., Holland, Mich. 
wood, walnut being used as late as 1795 in 
Philadelphia and quoted as somewhat less 
in price than mahogany. A table similar 
to this, once the property of Sir William 
Johnson, so great a figure in the Mohawk 
Valley, is shown at the Albany Historical 
Society. It too is of mahogany. 
The Kind of a Roof for Your House 
(Continued from page 16) 
old work the slate was perfectly graded 
so that each course was narrower or 
less than the course below, with a result 
that was not discernible to the eye, except 
in its resulting effect, which made the 
roof seem to slope easily and beautifully 
from the eaves to the ridge with a long, 
soft, easy line, and unconsciously gratified 
the eye of even the untrained observer. 
Abroad, slate is used in much more irreg¬ 
ular and picturesque ways than in America. 
With slate, galvanized iron or copper 
nails should be used. In the personal ex¬ 
perience of the writer it has generally been 
found that the slight difference existing 
between the cost of galvanized iron and 
the copper nail is well worth insisting upon 
the latter. The flashings too should be of 
copper, as only that material will approach 
the lasting qualities of the slate. Lead for 
counter flashing in certain locations can 
also be employed, provided it is heavy 
enough — and provided also that the users 
can guarantee its chemical properties. In 
passing it may be stated that the same 
thing is generally true of other modern 
metals, especially tin. 
Let us next take up the question of roof¬ 
ing tile, another material as durable as, if 
not more so than slate, to which the same 
general statement as to flashing and nail¬ 
ing also applies, save that here copper 
nails are always the best without any ques¬ 
tion. The selection of tile for a roof 
should be undertaken only after the most 
careful consideration and thought, because 
it is much more difficult to secure it in the 
sizes and shapes best suited to buildings 
of various types or sizes. Whereas slates 
come commercially of a size that is imme¬ 
diately available for the ordinary dwelling, 
this is not true of tile, which is generally 
made overlarge and so crude in scale as 
to prohibit beinp- used on the small struc¬ 
ture. A tile generally known as “shingle 
tile’’ has the smallest texture of unit when 
used upon the roof of the small house, and 
yet these tiles happen to be generally 
among the most expensive to lay and buy, 
and also — on acount of their construction 
— among the most difficult to take out and 
replace when such an act becomes neces¬ 
sary or advisable. The beauty of the old 
tile roofs in Spain, Italy and France comes 
from the wide variety of color; often the 
tiles are as yellow as the strongest ochre 
pigments. At other times they are the pur- 
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