HOUSE AND GARDEN 
May, 
1914 
Here is the Warm, 
Sunny, Productive Lit¬ 
tle Greenhouse You 
Have Always Wanted! 
After careful study we have designed this attractive practical Greenhouse, which 
is sent you in sections and can be put up without any foundation. 
KING IRON FRAME SECTIONAL GREENHOUSES 
fill a long felt want because they can be put up by any handy man; give you a complete 
heating plant, service building and the same amount of growing space for much less 
money than is possible in any other way. The sections come complete in every detail 
ready to be put together. The material is the best. The Iron Frame construction 
makes them permanent and productive. Write to-day for our descriptive leaflet. 
We can supply you with any other kind of Greenhouse you need — from the beautiful 
and productive King Channel Bar Houses to the Iron Frame Houses for Professional 
Growers. Just write us telling for what you want to use your greenhouse and we will 
gladly advise you what kind to buy. 
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266 Kings Road North Tonawanda, N. Y. 
“ All the Sunlight all day Houses” 
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The Political Shame of Mexico 
By EDWARD I. BELL 
Startling disclosures of the innermost workings of the 
ring of politicians who held the reins of government up to 
the end of the Diaz rule. The author, who was a news¬ 
paper editor and publisher in Mexico City, was in close touch 
with both federal and revolutionary leaders. 
Here is fearlessly and authoritatively disclosed the real 
status and the international ramifications of Mexico’s 
political shame. Illustrated. 8vo. 82.00 net. Postage 20 
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Half-Mile section of a Three Mile Boundary Fence on the estate of Gideon N. Caleb, Esq., Eatontown, N. J. 
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Section of Three-Mile Farm Fence, and a typical gateway on the estate of Jacob H. Schiff, Esq., Rumson, N. J. 
mensions, and are laid up as they come 
with as little breaking and splitting as 
possible. If the stones are laid in courses 
the wall is designated as “coursed rub¬ 
ble.” After rubble comes random ashlar. 
Technically, an ashlar is a veneer of 
stone that is used to cover and give a 
finish to a rougher wall behind. This 
backing wall may be of rubble or of 
brick. A “broken ashlar” is where the 
stones, while having the exposed faces 
dressed or trued, are of unequal sizes, 
though rectangular in shape. “Coursed 
ashlar” is where any course is of the 
same height for its entire length. 
A wall of this kind is a big step to¬ 
ward the formal. It is much more ex¬ 
pensive to build over the rubble wall and 
takes more skill in the building. 
Perhaps there is no building material 
better than good, hard burned bricks. 
They have had the test of time such as 
no other material made by man has had. 
They have wonderful variation of color, 
a pleasing range of surface textures, and 
when laid up in cement mortar a perma¬ 
nency that not even stone can exceed. 
Coming in regular sizes, a wall of them 
may be of any thickness provided the 
dimension is a mutliple of four, the depth 
in inches of the average brick. 
The thinnest possible wall of brick is 
four inches, one brick deep. This, if built 
straight, would have little strength later¬ 
ally, and therefore a four-inch wall is 
run zig-zag like a snake fence or broken 
up into short runs by other methods. 
If each run is not too long and the height 
is low, say not over five feet, a fairly 
strong wall is constructed. This zig-zag¬ 
ging, however, takes up ground space, so 
strength may be secured by using piers 
at 6- to io-foot intervals. If carried be¬ 
low the frost line, greater safety is the 
result, for a wall so thin has little weight, 
and is easily heaved out of place. 
Some walls are built with two thick¬ 
nesses of brick and an air space between. 
The two shells are held together with 
bonds which may be brick laid the long¬ 
ways across, or may be of metal, special 
metal bonds coming for this purpose. 
Hollow walls, on account of the air 
space, retain heat longer than solid walls, 
while they require 25% less brick than 
the latter. 
If we find that a wall, for its length, 
height and position, should require twelve 
inches of thickness, it would not always 
be necessary to make the entire length so 
deep. By putting in piers at, say, eight or 
ten-foot intervals, and making them six¬ 
teen inches or more square, the wall 
could be reduced to eight inches. These 
piers stiffen the wall, act as buttresses 
and help give lateral strength. If the 
piers are of great height, ten feet or 
over, a bond stone, which is a stone four 
or more inches thick running through 
the entire pier, helps tie the whole to¬ 
gether, this bond stone may be placed as 
near the center of the pier as the design 
will permit. 
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