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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
November, 1914 
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Hardware 
P ERMANENCE 
in a building depends on 
the quality of materials used in its 
construction. No detail is more im¬ 
portant than the selection of serviceable 
hardware trimmings that will blend harmoni¬ 
ously with the rest of the structure. 
Sargent Hardware has the solid quality and workmanlike 
finish that mean long years of service. Sargent Designs are 
architecturally true to the period to which they belong. Write for the 
Sargent Book of Designs 
— mailed free — 
It gives you an idea of the latitude allowed your personal taste within the limits of 
harmony. We have also our Colonial Book, which we will send on request. 
SARGENT & COMPANY 
31 Water Street, New Haven, Conn. 
. 
The Stephenson System 
of Underground Refuse Disposal 
Keeps your garbage out of sight in the 
ground, away from the cats, dogs and 
the typhoid fly. Opens with foot. 
Underground Garbage 
and Refuse Receivers 
A Fireproof receiver for oily waste 
and sweepings in house or garage. 
Our Underground Earth Closet 
means freedom from polluted water. 
Beware of Imitations. 
In use 10 years. It pays to look us up. 
Sold direct. Send for catalogue. 
C. H. STEPHENSON, Mfr. 
20 Farrar St., Lynn, Mass. 
McCRAY REFRIGERATORS 
Active cold air circulation—Sanitary linings. 
Send for catalogue. 
McCRAY REFRIGERATOR COMPANY. 
693 Lake Street, Kendallville, Ind. 
Thanksgiving Blossoms 
BOTH SHOWN HERE FLOWER IN 18 TO 20 DAYS. 
Give special joy to INVALID friends. Delivery postpaid 
with full directions. 
H 
Byzantine Wonder Lily 
1 6 12 
Large 20 - - $1.00 - $1.75 
Monster 30 - $1.50 - $2.75 
Jumbo each 40c. (Scarce) 
Send for our interesting 
Lily of Valley 
6 and fiber - .40 
12 ” ” - .65 
20 ” " - $ 1.00 
50 ” ” - $2.25 
BULB-BOOK. 
H. B. BERGER i CO., 70 Warren Slreel, \. V. 
Stone Furniture 
I jf j, For the garden, terrace or recep- 
|JM tion hall lends a sense oFarchitec- 
^J/s tural finish and spaciousXcomfort. 
We are showing a splendid col¬ 
lection of furniture rendered in 
Pompeian Stone for garden ’ and 
hall use at our studios. You 
would enjoy seeing them when 
next in New York. 
Handsomely illustrated cata¬ 
logue sent on request. 
XDhe ERKINS STUDIOS 
The Largest Manufacturers 
of Ornamental Stone 
226 Lexington Ave-, New York 
Factory: Astoria,Long Island 
Build Your Home 
“The New Way” 
10% larger bedrooms 
—50% larger ward¬ 
robe capacity. Send 
50c for Plan Book 
showing 22 Designs 
JOHN THOMAS 
BATTS, GRAND 
RAPIDS. MICH. 
Never needs coating. An excellent fire protection. | 
Write for Illustrated Catalog. ] 
. W. Johns-Wlanville Co. New York and every large city ( 
No. 60 No. 61 No. 62 ^ 
■ How about these Bird Houses for 1 
| Christmas presents? 
§f Can you think of anything more ap- || 
gj propriate or unique? 
g $ 1.25 each, or the 3 for $ 3 . 50 . g 
J Weight of three packed, I I lbs. 
Parcel Post prepaid within 3d zone. 
Send 20c for “Bird Architecture.” ^ 
| THE CRESCENT CO., Toms River, IV. J. | 
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In writing to advertisers please mention House & Ga-ri*en. 
thrown away, as it is useless after it be¬ 
gins to harden. Wash up clean at once all 
shovels, hoes, trowels, markers, pails, 
forms or mixing-bed, etc., which have 
been in contact with the wet concrete; 
otherwise you will find them ruined when 
you go to use them again. 
By taking advantage of ready-made 
forms a great number of difficult-looking 
things may be moulded with practically no 
trouble. Large concrete pots or vases, for 
instance, are easily made by getting lard- 
tubs or candy pails of such size that one 
will fit inside the other, leaving a space of 
an inch or two as a form, and imbedding a 
cork or wooden plug in the concrete bot¬ 
tom (which is put in the large pail before 
the smaller one is set inside), to be re¬ 
moved for a drainage hole. An ordinary 
cracker-box, with the bottom removed, 
makes a good form for a small stepping 
stone. Cylindrical posts or supports of 
any size, or rounded corners for walls, may 
readily be constructed by using pieces of 
sheet iron or tin, held in place by wire or 
nails or by short stakes, until the con¬ 
crete sets. A machine may be purchased 
at a reasonable figure which makes hollow 
concrete blocks. They may be made a few 
at a time and kept indefinitely. With them 
almost any sort of building operation may 
be undertaken. 
Along with concrete, one should learn 
the possibilities of iron pipe. Common 
water or gas pipe is used, and for most 
purposes second-hand pipe will answer as 
well as new. Embedded in concrete, it is 
practically everlasting. It is ideal to use 
for inexpensive arches, tressises, support¬ 
ing columns, etc. Formerly it was neces¬ 
sary to have a set of pipe-tools to fit and 
thread the pieces into their various posi¬ 
tions. Now, however, one may get “split 
fittings” to hold the pieces of pipe together 
wherever nothing is to be used inside of 
them. They are put on with an ordinary 
monkey wrench; a short holt which 
passes between the ends of the pipe, or 
double bolts, straddling it, being used to 
hold the fittings in place, so that the only 
tool necessary is a pipe-cutter or a hack¬ 
saw to cut the pipe into required lengths. 
With anything but the very simplest 
kinds of work it is best to make a detailed 
line drawing, with exact dimensions of 
just what you plan to construct. Other¬ 
wise you will find yourself making numer- 
out inaccuracies and mistakes. Very often, 
too, it is possible to make an excavation 
serve as one side of the form. In making 
a cold-frame or a root-pit against a bank, 
for instance, the back and at least part of 
the two ends may be formed by digging 
the bank down square and erecting the in¬ 
ner form several inches in front of this. 
For cold-frames it is possible to buy a cast 
iron “cap” that fits over the concrete wall 
and designed especially to make a good, 
snug fit for the sash. There are permanent 
wash colors also made especially for use 
with concrete, with which one may get any 
desired “tone” to harmonize with build¬ 
ings or surroundings. 
