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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
August, 1914 
The Best Time to Build Your Greenhouse 
W ITH the exception of severe freezing 
weather, we build greenhouses the entire 
year about. Greenhouse building, the 
way we do it, is not like other building. We 
make up, cut, fit and paint practically all the 
materials right here at our factory before they 
are shipped. The work we do on your grounds 
is mostly that of assembling. There is not the 
dragging delays so provokingly incident to build¬ 
ing in general. 
Of course the warmer months have less hind¬ 
rances, and if possible we would suggest your 
placing your order as soon now as possible, so we 
can get your house up and ready for the plants 
before snow flies. 
What is the use of putting off building until 
next Spring, when Winter is the time when you 
most want your house? Why deprive yourself and 
family of its real joys for practically another year? 
Send for a catalog, or if you wish, we will 
arrange to come and talk things over at once 
with you, so as to obviate all possible delays in 
correspondence between us both, in its goings to 
and from. 
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On the Estate of Mrs. Winlhrop Sargent, Fishkil! Landing , N . Y. 
Every garden plot, large or small, offers an opportunity for 
the expression of your individuality. Consider how much more 
charm your garden would have if you were to add only a 
simple stone bench, a sundial, or a bird bath. Our catalogue 
illustrating some of the models in our remarkable collection of 
garden ornaments will help you in your selection. When you 
are in New York, call at our warerooms and see the collec¬ 
tion for yourself. You will enjoy the visit. 
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that the sunlight can strike it throughout 
the greater part of the day. The ordinary 
bungalow roof, however, is hardly slanting 
enough to afford the best of results in 
solar heating. The heater frame should 
rest at an incline of about 35 degrees. 
The Californian in question built a bun¬ 
galow with a roof which is rather flat, so 
he didn’t mount the heater thereon. In¬ 
stead, he built a set of pergola standards 
and supports and mounted the heater upon 
them in such a manner that the heater 
frame faces the direct sunlight, and at the 
same time acts as a sunshade for the back 
porch and the summer kitchen windows. 
This heating outfit has a forty-gallon 
storage tank which is built into the kitchen 
wall. The tank is packed like a thermos 
bottle and works on the principle of a fire¬ 
less cooker. When the coils of the solar 
heater are filled with hot water, the water 
A solar water-heater mounted on the roof and supply¬ 
ing water at a temperature of 100 deg. F. 
is turned into the storage tank, where it 
will remain hot for forty-eight hours with¬ 
out losing more than ten per cent of its 
original temperature. The water in the 
storage tank and the coiff gives the family 
an eighty-gallon supply day and night for 
baths, dishwater and washing. In case of 
sickness it is a great advantage to be able 
to step to a faucet and tap the supply tank 
for a quantity of water ranging from ioo 
to 115 degrees in temperature. 
The original cost of installing a solar 
heater is the only item worthy of consid¬ 
eration, for a solar heater has nothing to 
get out of repair and if not abused it will 
last almost a lifetime. Hundreds of peo¬ 
ple are building their own solar heaters 
or hiring plumbers or tinners to do the 
work for them. In dollars and cents the 
solar heater has a tremendous advantage 
over the ordinary water-heater, both in 
fuel economy and upkeep, and in the mat¬ 
ter of supplying hot water at any hour of 
the day or night without a moment’s delay, 
it is of incalculable value to the housewife 
from the standpoint of convenience. 
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