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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 1911 
STANLEY’S HINGES 
The Standard of Quality the world 
over. Before buying the hardware 
for your new home, write for booklet 
“Properly Hung Doors.” 
Department “H.” 
THE STANLEY WORKS 
New Britain Connecticut 
Smoky 
Fireplaces 
A lo payment accepted unless 
successful. 
Also expert services on 
general chimney work. 
Made to 
Draw 
FREDERIC N. WHITLEY 
Engineer and Contractor 
219 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
6 FLOWERING SHRUBS $2.00 
OLD FAVORITES, but charming as ever. Some of them in bloom all the time from April 
to October. Perfectly hardy. Succeed everywhere. 
SPIREA VAN HOUTTEI—White SNOWBALL—White 
KERRIA JAPONICA Yellow WEICELIA EVA RATHKE—Red 
ROSA RUGOSA—Red or White FORSYTHIA—Yellow 
Extra large, strong, established bushes; have flowered two years. The S'x for $2 
No mailer what you may be Interested in, get our Catalog and Planting Guide, profusely illustrated, includes 
Nut Culture, Fruits, Roses, Shrubs, Evergreens, Free. 
GLEN BROS.. Inc-. Olenwood Nnrsery, Established 1866, 1728 Main Street. ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
are supplied with two steel carrying 
wheels about 14" in diameter, which are 
used to transport the mower easily from 
place to place and are only operative when 
the machine is turned upside down. The 
demountable cutter units are not only a 
convenience when it is necessary to l/ave 
cutters sharpened or adjusted, but, being 
independent and a separate part of the ma¬ 
chine, they are not affected by any twist¬ 
ing or straining to which the main frame 
may be subjected in passing over rough 
or uneven ground. 
Roller mowers were recommended in 
the foregoing for use in the 18" and 20" 
sizes for large lawns. They can also be 
had in smaller sizes, and they are fine for 
mowing and trimming at the same time: 
however, the rollers on the smaller sizes 
are not weighty enough to he of material 
use as rollers, hut are too heavy to be 
handled as easily as the mowers having 
the wheel drive, hence the smaller sizes 
are only advised in cases where no grades 
are encountered and no lifting necessary. 
Lawn trimmers and edgers are great 
time and labor savers. They are fitted 
with a guard covering the revolving cutter, 
which protects the flowers when trimming 
around the flower beds. When trimming 
is completed, the machine is turned com¬ 
pletely over and the revolving cutter edges 
the turf perfectly. 
Adjustable bronze bearings recpiire the 
least attention, but ball-bearings are very 
satisfactory in the highest grade machines. 
Do not use a ball-bearing machine unless 
of the highest cpiality, because in the 
cheaper machines the bearings are not 
properly protected and readily become 
clogged with grit, which wears the balls 
unevenly, causing the blades to vibrate as 
they revolve. Even the balls in high-grade 
machines will become rough if precaution 
is not used to keep them well lubricated at 
all times. 
If the lawn is terraced, be sure to ob¬ 
tain a machine having a terrace attach¬ 
ment. This usually consists of an extra 
pair of lugs on which to attach the handle, 
or an extra pair of holes in handle irons, 
either arrangement allowing the handles 
to drop completely to the ground, so that 
the tipping up of the machine as it runs 
down the terrace will not cause the handles 
to be lifted out of the hands of the 
operator. If terrace is a gradual slope, 
either internal, direct-drive gearing or ex¬ 
ternal, rear-drive gearing (train of gears') 
may be used, but if the slope is abrupt only 
an internal geared machine should be used, 
as the distance between the drive wheels 
and the roller of the external geared ma¬ 
chine is so great that the blades, which are 
set back toward the roller, will clip off the 
top of the terrace as the machine starts to 
descend, and leave the grass “long” at the 
bottom of the terrace just as it starts to 
run along the lower level. 
Unless the grass is cut every day or 
two, in which event the cuttings shrivel 
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