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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 1911 
Lighting 
Economical lighting of country homes and buildings by electricity— 
the cleanest, safest, most pleasant light—is possible for everyone by the 
simple and efficient 
Fay Si Bowen 
Pump Water 
Electric Li^ht 
usinir stoiafre batteries to grive light any hour of the twenty-four hy simply turning a 
switch. The engine is run at any convenient time, and you don’t need a trained 
engineer. These plants are very simple and perfectly safe— 32 -volt current. A space 
6 feet square is sufficient for a large plant. The engine and dynamo are direct-con 
nected, doing away with troublesome belts and saving space. In addition to lighting, 
you can have ample power to pump water, run the sewing machine, vacuum cleaner 
or machinery in barn and out-buildings. And you reduce fire risk. 
Send for Our Electric Bulletins 
Investigate this system. We will gladly give you an estimate on an equipment 
f or your exact requirements. 
FAY & BOWEN ENGINE CO.. 12£ Lake Street. Geneva. N.Y.. E. S. A. 
Household Uses 
“LIGHTNING” 
SPRAYERS 
At Your Dealer's, or 
Write Us 
Fifteen different styles 
to select from. For 
spraying garden vege¬ 
tables, fruit trees, 
shrubbery, rose bushes, disinfect- 
ants, whitewashing, washing 
wagons, windows, etc. Cannot be 
excelled for all kinds of spraying 
purposes. Write for free catalog 
on full line. 
D. B. SMITH & CO., Manufact’rs 
72 Genesee Street 
UTICA, N. Y., U. S. A. 
WRITE US regarding 
your Nursery Stock 
requirements, and 
CULTIVATE 
the habit 
It will pay you — -quality & 
price considered together. 
Begin NOW by sending for 
our catalog. 
F. W. KELSEY NURSERY CO. 
150 BROADWAY :: NEW YORK 
MS* 
A Greenhouse in the Garden 
A Garden in the Greenhouse 
TV TO home is complete without its garden. No garden 
’ complete without its greenhouse. So what is the 
use of struggling along each year, trying to get your 
outdoors flowers and vegetables early, when with a 
greenhouse you can always depend on good, strong. 
Depend on your garden being at least a month ahead. 
When fall comes the greenhouse is then your indoors 
garden—a continuation of the other. Build one of our 
Iron Frame greenhouses right now. It isan investment 
not a luxury. Send for our new catalogue. It will be 
well-developed plants to set out early in the spring ? a revelation to you. 
Hitchings & Company, 
Elizabeth, New Jersey 
New York Branch, 1170 Broadway 
mm. 
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Here one can live in a park, with com¬ 
munity advantages or in other sections 
have a house and small farm—or, dif¬ 
ferent still, have an estate that rivals the 
manors of England, and at the same time 
have the choice of the seashore or the 
bluffs and hills overlooking the Sound. 
From Hicksville, in the center of the Isl¬ 
and and midway between these points, 
stretch the farm lands, where one can 
shake off the fetters of city life and earn 
a living from the soil. Still further east 
on either shore come the summer homes 
and resorts that even now are famous, 
but bid fair to be an American Riviera 
or Ostend. 
The Flower for the Million and 
the Millionaire 
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variety. Put these pots in a well-protected 
cold frame or in a cool greenhouse, near 
the light. If you have neither, try them in 
a cellar window. The idea is to keep the 
growth sturdy but dwarf. When the 
young vines are two or three inches tall 
support them with twigs in the pots. Do 
not, of course, allow the young plants to 
be caught by frost. Even if they are, how¬ 
ever, you can follow the old method of 
planting the seeds directly outdoors, so 
that you arc losing nothing but a few seeds 
by trying this pot method. 
The young plants may be set out any 
time from early in March to early May, 
according to the latitude and weather con¬ 
ditions. A potful will be sufficient for a 
clump, if you prefer to grow them in 
clumps rather than rows. If you decide 
to follow the old method, however, allow 
a space of eighteen inches between each 
potful. Set the whole ball of soil, with 
plants and twigs, into the prepared soil 
outdoors so that there will be no shock in 
the transplanting. 
If you follow the old method of planting 
the seed outdoors do not make the common 
mistake of planting too much seed in the 
given space; use about one ounce of seed 
to a fifteen-foot row, covering it with two 
inches of soil. Firm this down and dust 
the top with soot from a smoke-pipe; this 
will keep away birds and insects. 
When the seedlings are about two inches 
high thin out the young plants so that the 
remaining ones will have a fighting chance 
for their life. Leave but one plant to every 
six inches. It is a great temptation to leave 
too many plants growing, but thinning is 
the only way to get stocky, healthy vines. 
You will get not only larger flowers but 
more of them, longer stems and better 
color. 
Hoe up the soil towards the young vines 
as thev grow, having been careful, in the 
first place, to sow the seed so that the cov¬ 
ering soil was in a trench about four inches 
below the surface. 
Of fifty-two experts on sweet pea cul¬ 
ture, forty-seven were found to be in favor 
of sticks—hazel brush preferably—for the 
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