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House & Garden 
The Modem Light 
and Power 
JHE charm of your country home 
can be immeasurably augmented 
by the installation of modern electric 
lights. QThe Fairbanks-Morse “F” 
plant gives an abundance of steady, 
dependable light with minimum atten¬ 
tion for care or repairs. Q The plant is 
extremely simple to operate—just touch 
a button to start and another to stop. 
QThe famous “Z” engine, which is 
part of the plant, can also be used in¬ 
dependently of the dynamo to pump 
water or do other work. Q Your dealer 
will be glad to explain all the details 
—which includes exclusive Fairbanks- 
Morse “F” plant features. 
The “F” Light Plant may also be obtained in larger sizes. 
An Evening Garden of Fragrance 
(Continued from page 70) 
be placed in each group, and white 
should be the predominating color. Like 
peonies, phlox has a peculiarly clean, 
fresh smell. 
While the latter are still in bloom 
the speciosum lilies make the air heavy 
with their fragrance. They are clustered 
thickly around the circle and along the 
outer edge of the garden, in order that 
their scent may not be too pronounced 
in the vicinity of the pergola. They 
remain in bloom for a long period, well 
into September, by which time two or 
three clumps of the aster-like white bol- 
tonia will make striking accents. 
Also about this time there are in 
bloom some Japanese anemones. Since 
they resent crowding they are placed in 
a line in front of the rockets—so as not 
to be smothered by the box—and to 
some extent are protected from frosts 
by the house. As is the case with the 
flowers of early spring, in deference to 
the summer effects, the fall flowers are 
in the minority. 
To replace the early bulbs some an¬ 
nuals are introduced. Nicotiana is near 
the pergola where its fragrance, which is 
strongest at night, may be appreciated 
to the full, and its white flowers gleam 
effectively in the twilight. Bordering 
the circle and the central walk are 
heliotrope in the lighter tints, and stocks 
in pastel colors. 
A very few clumps of tuberoses 
planted between the madonna lilies will 
succeed their bloom—few, because their 
scent is almost overpowering. Here and 
there where spaces appear may be 
tucked other aromatic plants: compact, 
spreading geranium, the erect lemon 
verbena and the gray-green lavender, 
all of which, though tender, may be 
grown successfully in the open, or if 
desired, potted in the autumn for the 
house. 
The tiny rosemary forms a carpet 
between the stepping stones and, with 
slight protection, survives the winters 
of the North. Sweet woodruff will 
form a close mat of foliage under the 
little trees, and a few clumps of sweet 
Cicely and the pungent southernwood 
add variety and interest. A fc"' ferns 
among the lilies form an appropriate 
combination. 
In this garden four things have been 
accomplished: A succession of bloom 
has been provided for from earliest 
spring until late fall; a series of charm¬ 
ing pictures has been drawn; within its 
boundaries have been gathered a mul¬ 
tiplicity of sweet odors; and last, we 
have framed a little piece of earth dis¬ 
tinctively and placed therein flowers 
that shall nod their heads wisely at our 
approach, and in the twilight hold sweet 
converse with the stars. 
Methods of Heating the House 
(Continued from page 35) 
norihern and exposed chambers, to which 
the hot air itself cannot be as well or 
certainly circulated. 
Other types of furnaces help to coun¬ 
teract this latter tendency by dividing 
the hot air chamber in the top of the 
heater into separate sections and con¬ 
necting each section with a room regis¬ 
ter, so that each room is the more cer¬ 
tain to receive its intended supply of hot 
air, regardless of the direction of the 
wind or momentary periods of unbal¬ 
ance—such as are occasioned when the 
housewife prepares to “air out” a room 
by opening a window. At such a time, 
not only is the hot air circulation to 
that room effectively stopped, but the 
whole system is likely to be reversed 
by starting a current of cold air down 
the heating pipe, thus sucking any bad 
air out of the room and down into the 
furnace, there to be promptly heated 
and distributed impartially over the en¬ 
tire house. 
Steam Heating 
Next to the hot air furnace, the 
steam system — especially the “low 
pressure steam” system — is most eco¬ 
nomical to install and even, in some 
cases, most economical to run as well. 
The steam heating system is similar in 
its general principles to the hot water 
system. In both, the heat is distributed 
through iron pipes and cast iron radi¬ 
ators located in the different rooms, the 
unused or chilled material being re¬ 
turned to the heater through a smaller 
iron pipe, thus maintaining a continuous 
circulation. The steam system has one 
advantage in that the pipes and radi¬ 
ators are smaller than are required in 
the hot water system. In the steam 
system a portion of the boiler is filled 
with water, which is heated until vapor 
or steam rises from it into the dome 
above, from which the pipes supplying 
the different radiators rise to different 
portions of the house. In the hot water 
system, the boiler is filled with hot 
water, the hotter water rising to the 
top, and itself circulating through the 
pipes and radiators, coming back again 
to the boiler through the return pipes. 
In theory, the hot water system is 
supposed to be more economical be¬ 
cause a certain amount of heat is ob¬ 
tained from even the tepid water, once 
it begins to circulate in the pipes at a 
higher degree of temperature than the 
air in the rooms. As a matter of fact, 
however, the warmth thus produced is 
so slight that it is of value only in the 
mildest weather—when, indeed, a cer¬ 
tain amount of warmth can be obtained, 
sufficient to take the chill out of the 
house, with a comparatively small 
amount of fuel. In colder winter the 
slight value of this heat is immediately 
lost by contact with the cold air sur¬ 
rounding the radiation, so that only a 
very sluggish circulation results, until 
the fire is hot enough to bring the 
water up to a higher temperature. 
Both these systems are ugly and un¬ 
sightly. Even if the upright pipes— 
the circulating risers and returns—are 
placed inside the partitions, in which 
case any leak or freezing of the system 
is more difficult to locate before dam¬ 
age results, the radiators themselves, 
especially in the case of hot water, are 
so large and unsightly that they do 
much to take away from the good 
looks of any room. 
Radiator Paints 
It is, of course, possible to paint or 
stain the radiator near to the color of 
the wall decoration or woodwork of 
the room. Ordinary paint, however, 
deteriorates rapidly under the extremes 
of heat and cold to which it is thus 
subjected. It cracks, and chips or flakes 
off, shows iron rust spots, or, at the 
least, it is yellowed and does not look 
as fresh and clean as the remainder of 
the room finish, while the three or four 
coats of paint that are necessary have 
some effect in losing heat radiation. 
The best coloring is restricted to the 
several shades of gold, bronze, and silver 
powdered paints, that are ordinarily ap 
plied to heating pipes and radiators. 
This material seems to cover the iron 
with so thin a skin as not to reduce 
its radiating values, while the various 
shades of metal tints available allow 
of matching the color of paint or wall, 
to a certain extent at least, even 
when restricted to the use of these 
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