74 
House & Garden 
Consider 
the hardware 
when planning 
your home 
A CAREFUL selection of 
Sargent Hardware will 
add unusual distinction to your 
home—now, and in the years 
to come. The choosing will 
be a pleasure, for there are 
Sargent designs to harmonize 
with every architectural or 
decorative scheme. Your hard¬ 
ware dealer will be pleased to 
show you samples. 
Give this hardware question 
the attention it merits. Even 
if you are not building until 
later, take this opportunity of 
familiarizing yourself with an 
important building subject. 
BUILD NOW 
And let Sargent 
Hardware add the 
final touch of beauty 
and security to your 
home. 
Sargent Door Closers 
keep the doors closed 
that should be closed, 
surely but silently. 
There are heavy 
models for outside 
doors and a light 
model for inside 
doors. 
The Sargent Book of De¬ 
signs will give you much prac¬ 
tical information on the sub¬ 
ject of hardware. It contains 
75 pages of interest to every 
builder or prospective builder 
and illustrates many attractive 
patterns in which Sargent 
Hardware may be obtained. 
You may have a copy upon re¬ 
quest, without charge. 
SARGENT & COMPANY 
Hardware Manufacturers 
31 Water Street New Haven, Conn. 
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If You Are Going to Build 
(Continued from page 70) 
The most important furnishing in the 
cellar is the heating plant (details of 
which we will give in a later article). 
Naturally it must be placed where it 
will economically and adequately heat 
the house. To avoid the escape of heat 
into the cellar, the furnace pipes, and 
the boiler in case of steam heat, should 
be completely encased in asbestos 
covering. You will save the expense of 
this in lower coal bills the first year. 
Ash Disposal 
There are new and excellent methods 
for the disposal of ashes worth studying, 
because it is impossible to keep an im¬ 
maculate cellar if ashes are taken out 
of the furnace in the old way, in an 
ash can and wheeled away. A prac¬ 
tical ash-receiving device consists of a 
turn-table carrying a half dozen or 
more cans, shaped so as to fit together 
somewhat like the sections of an orange, 
each holding as much as an ordinary 
garbage can. The table swings under 
the front part of the furnace, beneath 
which the ashes are dropped without 
bringing them into contact with the 
cellar air. When one receptacle is 
filled, the table is turned and another 
can brought into place. By means of 
a simple hoist the cans are easily 
brought to the floor and carried outside 
when desired. 
If your garbage cans are kept in the 
cellar because there is no place back of 
the house, no small outside closet or 
room, then the most practical method 
is to install one of the new small in¬ 
cinerators. The cost is not heavy and 
the danger from garbage in or about 
the house is avoided, also the possibility 
of odor, if refuse is burned in the fur¬ 
nace. These incinerators do not involve 
a large outlay of money, and soon pay 
for themselves, not only in the matter 
of the saving of bills for city garbage 
service, but also in the increased assur¬ 
ance which they render against disease. 
One of the new inventions for the 
convenience and health of a household 
is a combination hot water heater and 
incinerator. This economical contri¬ 
vance is arranged so that the heating 
plant is partly fed by the garbage 
from the house. The saving on this is 
of course twofold. After the heater is 
installed there is only a small expense 
for fuel and no expense for the remov¬ 
ing of garbage. 
The coal bins will be placed very 
close to the heating plant. The enclo¬ 
sure for coal should be shut in tightly 
with manufactured boards or wooden 
walls which reach without fail, from 
floor to ceiling, and the door to the bin 
must be kept closed, for this modem 
white cellar would soon lose its reputa¬ 
tion if smudges of coal dust appeared 
on its immaculate surface. The only 
way to avoid dust in the cellar is to 
have the coal put in 
covered chute which will connect di¬ 
rectly with the delivery wagon. _ 
You will want electric lights in your 
cellar for twilight, night and stormy 
days, also unless a cellar is light you 
may rest assured it will not be clean. 
It would be against human nature. 
Naturally the laundry should be 
placed as far as possible from coal and 
furnace, and for economy’s sake the 
electric or gas meter should be nearby, 
as this laundry will be fitted with elec¬ 
tric or gas washing machines, driers, 
and, of course, irons. Laundry work 
done by these almost miraculous me¬ 
chanical appliances loses much of its 
old horrors, and the clothes come out 
sweeter and cleaner. 
Storage Equipment 
It is possible to secure preserve cab¬ 
inets, convenient and pure white, for 
this cellar equipment, but many very 
good housekeepers are satisfied with 
white enameled shelves hung from the 
ceiling at a convenient height and well 
away from the furnace. Sets of shelves, 
if there is room, are also provided for 
fruits and vegetables. These should be 
hung low, the idea being to get good 
ventilation and fresh cool air, in which 
all edibles will last longer than shut 
away in a closet. If, in spite of pre¬ 
cautions in the way of screens in the 
little windows, insects should penetrate 
this spotless place, hang full curtains of 
mosquito netting about the vegetable 
and fruit shelves. These will let in air 
and keep out insects, though of course 
we do not like to believe that there 
lives an insect with soul so dead that he 
would trouble this immaculate place. 
Where it is practicable there should be 
a flight of steps leading outdoors as 
well as one direct to the kitchen or 
back hall. Then all vegetables, laundry 
work, etc., can be taken directly to the 
cellar without passing through the 
kitchen. And the entrance to this flight 
of steps can be made quite a picturesque 
detail of the basement wall if well 
planned. 
If for any reason white is not desired 
in the cellar the only really satisfactory 
substitute is a warm yellow, a good, 
ripe pumpkin color. This will give you 
the effect of sunlight and is perhaps 
more lastingly clean than pure white. 
But whether white or yellow is used, 
the cellar must be done over at least 
once a year. You will find that this 
perfection of convenience and exquisite 
cleanliness in the cellar will set a sani¬ 
tary standard for the whole service end 
of the house. In all details of home 
building there is probably no appoint¬ 
ment that in the long run brings you 
greater satisfaction than a cellar that 
has been made to realize your ideal of 
convenience and sanitation. 
Gardens of Spain and Portugal 
(Continued from page 36) 
that Navagero had reached Spain in 
safety, adding, “I see that this pilgrim¬ 
age will be pleasant to him, if only it 
will enable him to discover new plants 
and other rare things and, as he says 
himself, I am sure he will return home 
laden with them.” 
Navagero’s own letters abound hi 
praises of the gardens of Spain, 
which he declares more beautiful than 
those of Italy. The Moorish Al¬ 
cazar of Sevilla, with its exquisite patios 
planted with shady orange and lemon 
trees, was the fairest place he had ever 
seen. He visited the old Carthusian 
gardens on the plains of Sevilla along 
the Guadalquivir and lingered where 
even today one may find heavy bowers 
of roses and fragrant myrtle groves. He 
praised the vast garden of the Monastery 
of Guadalupe, delighted in the Alhambra 
and climbed the heights of the Moorish 
pleasure palace of Generalife where, he 
wrote, “nothing is lacking to complete 
the charm and perfection of this spot 
save the presence of a scholar to enjoy its 
beauty.” Fram Barcelona he sent home 
to Venice some caronba trees; from Se¬ 
villa he dispatched the seeds of the 
sweet orange as well as some curious 
roots that he called batate, lately come 
from the Indies and tasting like a chest¬ 
nut (was this our modern sweet po¬ 
tato?). He sent also a flowery shrub 
called ladano with a blossom between 
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