House and Garden 
Russwin 
Hardware 
Lancaster Design 
School Elizabethan 
Booklet of designs will 
be furnished on request 
Russell & Erwin Manufacturing Company 
NEW BRITAIN, CONN. 
No. 26 West Twenty-Sixth Street, New York No. 1201 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia 
P. &F. 
CORBIN 
N. W. Corner 
Eighth and Arch Streets 
PHILADELPHIA 
FACTORIES 
New Britain, Conn. 
Fine Hardware 
With Correct Designs in 
all the Leading Schools of 
Art is found in the produc¬ 
tions of 
FERNS 
pLAN rS of the Boston fern in its 
-*■ many forms grown right along in 
pots, and that have been for some time 
in the pots or pans in which they are to 
remain, need abundance of water. These 
ferns, when they have filled their 
receptacles absolutely with roots, dry 
out very quickly and neglect to water 
them for any great length of time will 
he hurtful to them in the extreme. 
Plants lately potted from bench-grown 
stock need just as much care in the mat¬ 
ter of watering as the others, with this 
difference, that harm is more likely to 
come to plants newly potted from 
benches through over-watering them 
because of an insufficient supply. Con¬ 
sidering which, it will be advisable to 
examine the plants well before watering. 
— Florists’ Exchange. 
WATER TANKS IN CHURCH TOWERS 
A/TR. J.C. MERRYWEATHER, 
the well-known manufacturer of 
fire-apparatus in London, makes a most 
useful suggestion on the subject of the 
protection of churches from fire. After 
referring to the dangers of fire in such 
buildings from defects in the heating 
and lighting apparatus, he proposes that 
each church tower should be fitted with 
a tank or tanks, kept full of water by 
means of a pump and hose or fixed pipe, 
the pump to take supply from a well or 
other available source. Erom the tanks 
he suggests a pipe being carried into the 
church, with hydrants and hose in con¬ 
venient positions. The water tanks 
would then enable powerful jets to be 
brought to bear immediately an out¬ 
break of fire was discovered. The cost 
of the arrangement would be small, 
and doubtless the destruction of many 
sacred buildings by fire would be pre¬ 
vented. Canterbury Cathedral has been 
saved three times by its own fire appa¬ 
ratus, and the recent fire at St. George’s, 
Hanover Square, proves that even in 
London there is considerable risk of 
fire in places of worship. — Fire-and- 
Water. 
Teas’ weeping mulberry grows readily 
from cuttings, but such plants are of a 
trailing nature only, of the nature of a 
vine, in fact. In this condition they are 
very good for planting along banks, to 
prevent the soil washing out. 
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