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EXACTLY WHY KELSEY HEAT IS FAR 
SUPERIOR TO STEAM OR HOT WATER 
O F first importance, it’s a healthier heat, be¬ 
cause it’s fresh air fresh heated. It is not the 
same old air heated and reheated. 
To keep the air fresh in a steam or hot water 
heated room, when it’s chilly outside generally means 
some one is in a draught—uncomfortable. 
The Kelsey, both heats and ventilates at the same 
time — it goes on night and day. It’s always agree¬ 
able to all. 
Think what it means to live in rooms that are 
warm and still continuously being supplied with 
fresh air. To those whose throats are sensitive to 
the chilly fresh air, it is a boon. With steam you 
must first have fire enough to boil the water before 
the radiators begin to pound and snap with heat (a 
most disagreeable thine in itself). 
With the Kelsey the heat starts coming to your 
rooms the very minute the fire starts. No wait. No 
disagreeable pounding. With Hot Water the radi¬ 
ators are large, the piping doubled, and when once the 
water is heated you can’t shut it off, but must wait 
for both water and radiators to cool, and all the time 
you are heating the same old air over and over again. 
This is the most uncomfortable thing in early Fall 
or late Spring, when the midday sun begins warming 
up. With the Kelsey, a little fire will give you just 
a little heat you need to take off the chill in your 
rooms in early Fall or late Spring. 
The Kelsey saves coal over steam, hot water, or 
any kind of furnace heat. It’s less trouble. It’s 
more flexible. It is an economizer and healthizer. 
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T HE dominant feature of the Gardens of Italy is the fountain. The music of 
bubbling water — the play of the sunlight—and softened tints of timeworn 
stone against a setting of greenery add a tone not to be achieved by any other 
form of ornamentation. 
Our fountains are perfectly modeled from famous Old World masterpieces. They 
are reproduced in Pompeian stone, a marble-like product that is practically ever¬ 
lasting. 
We are always glad to furnish plans and estimates upon request. 
Our handsome catalogue illustrates our wide variety of large and small garden 
ornaments—fountains, balustrades, sundials, benches, tables, vases, statuary, 
flower urns and boxes. They may be used individually or in groups to meet any 
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THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS OF ORNAMENTAL STONE 
dally valuable as pot plants, on account 
of their hardiness and continuous bloom¬ 
ing. Baby Crimson Rambler (Mne. Nor- 
bert Lavasseur) ; Anchen Muller, bril¬ 
liant rose with waved petals; Mrs. Cut- 
bush (Baby Lady Gay) ; Katherine Zei- 
met, pure white; Louise Walter (Baby 
Tausendschon) ; Jessie, bright red; Or¬ 
leans, red with white center; and Phyllis, 
cerise pink, are a half dozen or so of this 
splendid and growing class. Include at 
least one or two in your order; they are 
cheaper than the standard sorts. 
Still another type entirely distinct from 
all the foregoing, but having a place of 
its own that no other roses can fill, is the 
Rugosa or Ramanas roses. They grow 
three to six feet high, with heavy, tough, 
beautiful folia. Their salient characteris¬ 
tic is hardiness. You simply cannot kill 
them. They require no pruning; simply 
cutting away old or surplus wood — al¬ 
though the canes may be trimmed back 
into any desired shape for a more formal 
hedge. There are light rose and pure 
white, single forms — Rugosa and R. 
Alba, respectively. They bloom through¬ 
out the season, though not so profusely 
as the garden sorts. The flowers are fol¬ 
lowed by large seed pips as large as 
cherries, which turn brilliant red. The 
double varieties, of which there are sev¬ 
eral, are still more beautiful. Sir Thomas 
Lipton, pure white and fragrant; Blanc 
de Coubert, large, pure white; Conrad F. 
Meyer, silvery rose; Nova Zembla is a 
hybrid Rugosa, growing taller, and espe¬ 
cially desirable for the shrubbery border; 
the flowers are white, tinted pink, and 
more of the regular rose form. 
If you plant in well-drained soil, in an 
airy position, in a properly enriched bed, 
strong, healthy growth and an abundance 
of blossoms should be your reward. The 
two insects most likely to prove trouble¬ 
some are the rose-bug and the green-fly, 
or aphis. The latter may be controlled 
easily by keeping a sharp watch and de¬ 
stroying any that appear, or using a nico¬ 
tine spray if they get too much of a start 
for that. The rose-bug is more formid¬ 
able. Hand-picking, knocking the bugs 
off with a little paddle into a ten-cent 
sauce pan of water and kerosene, is the 
surest remedy. Strong arsenate of lead 
spray will get them, but it disfigures the 
leaves and spoils one crop of buds and 
flowers. Paris green is sometimes effect¬ 
ive, but you must experiment to get the 
right strength. If the spray is too weak 
there’s “nothing doing”; if too strong, it 
will burn the foliage. The most fre¬ 
quent disease is mildew; this may be 
controlled by Bordeaux Mixture. In 
fact, if there is reason to anticipate 
trouble, the simplest method is to spray 
every week or ten days after the leaves 
come out, with one of the several good 
combination insecticide and fungicide 
sprays. 
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