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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 1913 
Read About This New Astermum 
T HE dispute between the Aster and the 
Chrysanthemum has at last been most 
amicably settled by combining the 
beauties of the Aster and the glory of the 
Chrysanthemum. 
It is now our pleasurable privilege to in¬ 
troduce you to the Astermum—a perfect 
result of the hybridizers’ art. When making 
up your list, be sure that they receive an 
invite. 
You will find them delightful garden 
guests. They have a beauty all their own. 
They dress most tastily in snow white, 
beautiful rose pink and Aunt Prue Lavender. 
Each color 35c. a package—3 packages, $1. 
These Astermums are fully described in 
Boddington’s Garden Guide — which is the 
real “social register 1 ' among the flower and 
vegetable folks. Send for the Guide — it’s 
free. 
Arthur T. Boddington 
334 West I4th Street 
New York City 
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At the Entrance 
Plan for Beauty and Dignity 
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Fstablished 1828 
and made to drop piece by piece into a 
compartment containing water. There 
the chemical combination results in giving 
off a gas that is piped to a receiving cham¬ 
ber and from there purified and piped into 
the house. The old difficulties of the 
original machines have now been re¬ 
moved. An automatic (or weight-driven 
clockwork motor) feed assures an even 
generation of gas; by ingenious arrange¬ 
ment the floating gas bell of the receiving 
tank shuts off the feed automatically when 
sufficient gas has been generated, or fall¬ 
ing as gas is withdrawn, it starts the car¬ 
bide feeder again. The whole process 
goes on without any attention whatever 
beyond feeding in the carbide once in 
three weeks or a month or in the removal 
of residuum sludge after a long period of 
operation. Modern machines are all but 
fool-proof. Safety devices provide the 
liberation into the air outside of all pos¬ 
sible escaping gas, thereby preventing ex¬ 
plosions. It is impossible to open various 
parts of certain machines without auto¬ 
matically stopping the generation of gas, 
so that only an exceedingly ingenious sui¬ 
cide maniac could do damage with the 
modern perfected generator. 
Acetylene gas is a white light of much 
the same quality as that produced by a 
tungsten burner. The carbide to produce 
the gas costs about $3.75 per hundred 
pounds, and one pound generates about 
five cubic feet of gas, so that it will read¬ 
ily be seen that light is supplied at con¬ 
siderable economy. 
Another economical and efficient sys¬ 
tem is that of generating gas from gaso¬ 
line. The volatile gasoline is combined 
with air by means of a carburetor situ¬ 
ated usually with the gasoline supply un¬ 
derground and some distance from the 
house. The air necessary to mix with the 
gasoline to produce a gas or a vapor is 
supplied under pressure created by some 
sort of power (hand, windmill or engine). 
The resultant gas flows back, and is regu¬ 
lated by a governor in the cellar so that 
the supply may be just proportionate to 
the number of burners in use. There is a 
steady circulation of air from the house 
to the carburetion chamber and back again 
as gas, and there is no labor necessary be¬ 
yond occasionally operating the engine to 
compress a supply of air or once in a 
while replenishing' the gasoline. Gas is 
generated only as required, and as soon as 
the fixtures are closed the supply of gas 
runs back into the container. 
The appearance of the gaslight is much 
the same as that of ordinary illuminating 
gas, and its cost of manufacture, outside 
of the original expense of the plant, is 
little. It is claimed that a twenty-five 
candle flame can be kept burning in one 
burner for forty hours at a cost of five 
cents. 
Another gas similar in appearance to 
illuminating gas is the Blau-gas mentioned 
earlier, which is supplied in steel cylinders 
much like those used for automobile head¬ 
lights. The gas is bottled under high 
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