HOUSE AND GARDEN 
June, 1913 
505 
If you are too far 
from a lighting 
plant 
You can light 
your home with 
the Aplco System 
There is no longer the slightest need of going 
without the convenience and comfort of electric 
light; you can install the complete Aplco system and 
furnish electricity for any number of lights up to 
twenty 16-c.p.as well as power for small machinery. 
The Aplco Electric Lighting System 
is the most compact and convenient outfit made. 
It weighs only 360 pounds; occupies a floor space 
of 21 x 38 inches—30 inches high. The price of 
dynamo, switchboard, battery and gasoline engine, 
(1M horse power), complete on one base, is $200. 
Only two wires to connect. 
You will want to know more about this splendid 
system by which you can not only light your house, 
but your stables, garage, milk house and all other 
outbuildings. If you will write us, we will send 
you a special circular which will provide for the 
details you need to know. 
The Apple Electric Co. 
84 Canal Street, Dayton,Ohio 
yard, which gives plenty of space for num¬ 
bers or other designations. 
All borders should be not less than four 
feet in width; six is better, and they may 
be run up to ten or twelve feet if there is 
access from both sides. Three feet is a 
good average width for a path, but if 
growth is eventually to fall over both 
sides allow another foot. 
Straight lines depend largely upon the 
amount of formality that is to enter into 
the plan. Sometimes, however, they are 
considered as the means of saving work. 
Every variation from straight lines calls 
for more labor of maintenance, as well as 
construction, and the same is true of the 
multiplicity of beds and borders in a lay¬ 
out. The time to think of both things is 
when the paper plan is taking shape. 
At this point, too, it should be borne in 
mind that laying out a garden does not 
necessarily imply that you are binding 
yourself to do all the work designated 
before the next summer has flown. As a 
matter of fact, in the case of any layout 
of size or one of complexity, the better 
way is to make only a start the first year. 
If, as is again and again the case, the 
start is a wrong one, it will be the more 
quickly remedied. 
Suppose the garden scheme to be a bor¬ 
dered path leading down to a parterre 
plot. Plant only the path border the first 
spring and let the remainder simmer until 
autumn—when it can be made ready for 
planting the following year. This is not 
altogether a question of dividing the labor, 
though that is important enough; you 
learn a lot as you proceed with the work, 
and the final shaping of the plan will be 
easier as well as more satisfactory for the 
experience. If it is convenient to make 
ready the parterre plot the first spring, 
fill it up with annuals as a temporary 
measure. 
Greater restraint than this may be ex¬ 
ercised, and it is good advice to follow 
where pretty nearly everything is to be 
learned about plants — color value, foliage 
effect, manner of growth, hardiness in a 
given locality and the season and dura¬ 
tion of bloom. These things are best 
learned by doing all the initial planting in 
some out-of-the-way place like one end of 
the vegetable garden. Lay out long beds 
about six feet wide and grow your flowers 
there for a season, or even two or three — 
until you feel competent to handle them 
with intelligence. Plant in transverse 
rows, wide enough apart to use a hoe, 
where rapid increase of hardy stock is de¬ 
sired and in small groups to experiment 
as to color combinations and other effects. 
It takes courage and patience to do this, 
but it pays in the end. 
These are more thoughts for winter 
evenings. Meanwhile the paper plan is 
only an outline of boundaries. The fill¬ 
ing in of the details is simple or complex 
according to the variety of plants used 
and the character of the color scheme. 
Apply a thin wash of water color to the 
sections devoted to the different plants 
before the letters and numbers are put on; 
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of rugs for myself before I felt able 
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offer you honest pieces at honest prices. 
Rug list sent upon request, and rugs 
prepaid for approval. 
L. B. LAWTON, MAJOR U. S. A , Retired 
181 CAYUGA STREET, SENECA FALLS, NEW YORK 
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