HOUSE AND GARDEN 
September, 1914 
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Western Electric 
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Stationary Vacuum Cleaner 
Install this Vacuum 
Cleaning System in 
Your New Home 
It is a simple matter when building to 
have the house piped for a Western Electric 
Stationary Vacuum Cleaner, running the 
suction pipe from cellar to rooms, inside 
the walls, along with the water, heat and 
waste pipes. From this suction pipe neat 
inlets open through the baseboard in each 
room, to which the cleaning hose is quickly 
attached. These inlets do not protrude from 
the baseboard to collide with furniture. 
They have hinged covers which drop over 
the inlets when not in use. The 
denotes the most modern home. When ready to 
clean, lift the cover of the inlet, attach the hose, 
press a button starting the electric motor-fan 
combination in the cellar, and down goes every 
particle of dust and dirt into the collector. After 
that room is cleaned, stop the motor, take out the 
hose and start cleaning the next room. 
Perfectly simple! Equally simple is the mech¬ 
anism. No gears, no bellows—nothing to wear out 
or leak. Just a motor and fan on one shaft and an 
ample dust bag. Best of all, no dirt passes through 
the fan—no clogging. All these things result from 
the application of the best engineering skill. 
Write us for our booklet describing this home 
essential. Our engineers will be glad to consult 
with you or your architect. When writing, address 
our nearest house, and ask for booklet No. 147 -A. 
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EQUIPMENT FOR EVERY ELECTRICAL NEED 
This shows the in¬ 
let for the hose and 
the simple method 
of attaching it for 
cleaning. 
Every part of the 
Western Elect ric- 
Sturtevant Station¬ 
ary Vacuum Clean¬ 
ing System reflects 
the same simplicity 
and ease of opera¬ 
tion. It cleans effi¬ 
ciently. 
A complete line of 
portable cleaners in 
six sizes. 
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EVERGREENS 
SHOULD BE TRANSPLANTED BEFORE THE END OF OCTOBER 
We have the finest, healthiest stock of pines, hemlocks, cedars, etc., at reasonable prices. We also carry a full line of 
all kinds of shrubs and plants of the famous BEDFORD QUALITY. 
TELL US YOUR TROUBLES 
New England Nurseries 
CATALOG Dept. B 2, BEDFORD, MASS. 
crevice between the earth-ball and the 
walls of the hole with earth that has been 
kept from freezing for this purpose. 
Oaks, walnuts, catalpas and beeches, 
and cedars among evergreens, send 
straight down on the axis of their trunks 
a long, strong root called a tap-root; and 
these are difficult fellows to transplant, 
even when nursery-grown, he said. Well 
do I know how true this is, for only last 
fall I dug up a tiny cedar from the woods 
back of the old tannery, and its middle 
root, that was fully four times the length 
above ground! I dug and dug and dug , 
until 1 was nearly dead! And I should 
have given up in despair if it had not been 
for a dreadful feeling that I should be a 
wanton infanticide if I desisted and left 
the little thing to perish after I had un¬ 
dertaken to adopt it! It's alive yet, thank 
fortune — but how I did tend it, and water 
and nourish to keep it going! 
So I got up as the meeting drew to a 
close, and related the experience, and be¬ 
sought everyone never to undertake the 
transplanting of any of these species he 
had mentioned as being “tap-rooters.” 
file good man, he backed me up, and ad¬ 
vised us generally to get the trees we want 
from nurseries, where they have been im¬ 
mured to moving and made ready by fre¬ 
quent transplantings for the arduous task 
of taking up life under changed condi¬ 
tions. These frequent movings give them 
anywhere from three to fifty times the 
number of feeding or fibrous roots they 
would be blessed with under normal, static 
conditions, and the greater the number of 
these roots, the greater plants’ power of 
recuperation and of adaptability to change. 
The Available Hardy Vines 
(Continued f rom page 152) 
of the hardy vines. One of the best is the 
variegated, Aurea reticulata, both foliage 
and flowers of which are very beautiful. 
It withstands the average winter in the 
northern States, but is not absolutely 
hardy. Even when killed back to the 
roots, however, it quickly makes a new 
growth. There are several other sorts, of 
which Chinese Evergreen is especially fra¬ 
grant, and Heckrothi is especially continu¬ 
ous flowering. 
The most gorgeous of all the real climb¬ 
ing vines are the wistarias. The variety 
best known is Skinensis, or the Chinese. 
With its wonderful clouds of pale purple 
pannicles drooping gracefully and deli¬ 
cately perfumed, it brings a breath of the 
Orient even into northern climes. There 
is also a white sort. And then there is the 
Japanese variety, which flowers later, and 
therefore makes a good companion plant. 
The flowers are smaller, and born in ra¬ 
cemes more loosely put together. Wis¬ 
tarias will climb to a great height if prop¬ 
erly supported, but they are displayed at 
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