Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar81911newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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XIV AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS March, 1911
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A concrete tank erected on estate of Edmund Tatham, Katonah, New York Frederick J. Sterner, Architect - - New York De Lancey A. Cameron, Builder - - New York Tank designed for storage supply of 15,000 gallons, built entirely of concrete reinforced with Clinton welded wire. Before roof was placed over tank, and during winter months, ice 10 inches thick formed on water stored therein. No cracks or leakage have developed. Ceilings Clinton Wire Cloth Company CLINTON, MASS. Flreprooflno Departments: ALBERT OLIVER, 1 MADISON AVE.. NEW YORK Washington: Rosslyn Supply Co.. Colorado Bide. San Francisco: L. A. Norris. 835 MonadnockBide. Chicago: Clinton Wire Cloth Co.. 30-32 River St, Seattle, Wash.: L. A. Norris. 909 Alaska Buildine Buffalo, N. Y.: Buffalo Wire Works Co.. Inc. Parti- tions The High Cost of Living does not worry the man who realizes that he holds a partial solution of this grave question in his own hands. At an expense of a few dollars in seeds and fertilizers, a small plot of ground, even so small as 25x50 feet, will grow all the vegetables an average family will consume. During the summer half of your living expense is for the things thai should come out of your own garden. "Everything for the Garden" is the title of our 1911 catalogue. It is a book of 212 pages, handsomely bound, 8 colored plates, 800 illustrations, most of them direct from photographs, showing actual results without exaggeration. It is a library of every- thing worth while, either in farm or garden, or home. Our special advertising edition also contains 12 extra pages, 8 pages of the most concise, comprehensive, clear, cultural in- structions ever published. In addition, there are three pages of a new departure in our cooking recipes. " How to Cook the Vegetables You Grow in Your Own Garden " Most women who know regard Mrs. Rorer ai the undisputed authority on cooking of the present day and so, realizing the high esteem in which Mrs. Rorer is held, we have induced her to personally select one method of pre- paring each vegetable we catalogue. The best recipe from the best cook. To get the above information and results, send for our catalogue as below A Remarkable Offer of Henderson's Specialties We have made up six of the best we have, into a Henderson Collection, consisting of one packet each of the following great specialties: Ponderosa Tomato Big Boston Lettuce Scarlet Globe Radish Henderson's Invincible Asters Mammoth Butterfly Pansies Giant Spencer Sweet Peas To obtain for our annual catalogue, "Everything for the Garden," described above, the largest possible distribu- tion, we make the following unusual offer: To everyone who will mail us 10c, mentioning this publication, we will mail the cata- logue and also send our " Henderson Specialty collection as above. Every Empty Envelope Counts as Cash This collection is enclosed in a coupon en- velope which, when emptied and returned will be accepted as 25c cash payment on any order of one dollar or over.

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