HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April. 1913 
No other building material gives you all the 
beauty, service and comfort that you get from 
Ely-tex Brick. 
Brick has long been conceded these points of 
superiority. But —do you realize that along with 
these advantages 
Hy-tex BricK 
is the most economical building material? 
There are so many savings in a Hy-tex house after it is 
built that the slight difference in ‘'first-cost’’ is soon elim¬ 
inated. 
Before you build you should know all about Hy-tex, for somewhere in 
the Hy-tex line there is just the brick you want. We make over 300 dif¬ 
ferent kinds-—including every color and texture known to brick-burning. 
We have just issued a new booklet, “Genuine Economy in Home- 
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builder. It is illustrated in colors throughout — but it’s the FACTS in it 
that make it profitable and necessary for you. Easily the finest book ever 
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Dept. G, ST. LOUIS, MO. 
BRANCH OFFICES 
BALTIMORE, MD. 
11 East Lexington Street 
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Chamber of Commerce Bldg. 
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CLEVELAND, O., Schofield Bldg. 
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, 
Board of Trade Building 
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‘W’OU may be planning a new home, or perhaps you are 
1 one of the oldest inhabitants of your neighborhood 
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— it makes no difference, you are entitled to the best Water 
Supply your money can buy. 
You have a right to all the water you can use — Water for your 
House—Water for your Garden — Water for your Garage — Lots 
of it—at high pressure. 
A Corcoran Tank Tower always means an abundance. An 
overflow tank just below will mean that water you need so 
much for your garden when rain is scarce. 
Before you do anything about the water supply question, 
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write and find out how cheaply the best system can be installed. 
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fruits of different sizes, grotesque shapes 
and peculiar markings. 
When making provision for fall beauty 
the Virgin’s Bower should be considered 
for its feathery fruit. Ampelopsis hetero- 
phylla is a handsome vine well adapted 
for rocks or walls, but appreciated for its 
blue berries. Another attractive berried 
vine is Celastins scandens, a twining vine 
with very showy fruits of orange yellow 
splitting open and showing crimson seed 
envelopes like the bittersweet berry. 
Purchasing Garden Equipment 
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strument with the handle instead of the 
long-handled hoe without a terminal grip. 
The spading fork, if there is a choice be¬ 
tween the two, is of greater value all 
round than the spade. Get a four¬ 
pronged type, with slightly incurving 
prongs, and see that the iron is solidly 
fixed to the handle. 
The rake is constantly in use as giving 
the final touches to the seed bed and mak¬ 
ing that carefully cultivated surface that 
is essential to good growth, so smooth and 
fine that even a cat’s foot-print is left upon 
it. You must get a good, serviceable type. 
The bow-headed rake is best. 
During the process of cultivation, and 
in fact during the whole year, the ordinary 
draw hoe will be a necessary item. See 
that you get one with a tight head with 
the iron running well up the shaft and the 
angle between the shaft and the blade a 
little less than a right angle. There are 
various sorts of hoes for breaking up clods 
and all the many general uses of the 
garden. There is the hoe with a shorter 
blade for lighter and quicker work in 
loosening up soil or cutting out weeds. 
There is the heart-shaped hoe or Warren 
hoe, well adapted to the seeding process. 
With a little acquired knack you can make 
the drill for the seed and cover it up with 
great facility in using this type. The 
scarifier comes in handily in scraping off 
weeds or breaking up the soil when about 
closely, and there are good uses for all 
these types, especially if you do not have 
some form of the mechanical wheel-hoe. 
Another instrument that is of value in the 
small garden and sometimes'may precede 
the hoe proper is what is known as the 
prong hoe. At one side is a straight 
bladed hoe and at the other prongs. This 
tool combines some qualities of the rake, 
and is particularly good for working in 
around plants, loosening the surface and 
earlier in preparing the soil for seeding. 
In setting out plants and flowers in the 
small garden the trowel is a necessity and 
any good type will do. Its work is 
seconded by a hand fork that bears the 
same relation to it that the spading fork 
does to the spade. Like tools of value in 
this connection are the various types of 
hand weeders. There is one particular 
type with a bent blade that has a strap for 
the finarers and that can work its wav into 
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