American homes and gardens . a pleasant little structureof stone, with a low, flatly-pointed roof. Here are the en-gine and dynamo for the electric light. They are operatedonly at night, storage batteries affording the day also is the pump from which water is pumped from thewells and spring close at hand, and which is forced up intothe tower of the house. Not far off is the automobile house,abundantly furnished with motor cars. And at quite somedistance from these house buildings is the farm-barn andvegetable gardens. Farming is not carried on on the estatesave to harvest the abun
American homes and gardens . a pleasant little structureof stone, with a low, flatly-pointed roof. Here are the en-gine and dynamo for the electric light. They are operatedonly at night, storage batteries affording the day also is the pump from which water is pumped from thewells and spring close at hand, and which is forced up intothe tower of the house. Not far off is the automobile house,abundantly furnished with motor cars. And at quite somedistance from these house buildings is the farm-barn andvegetable gardens. Farming is not carried on on the estatesave to harvest the abundant crops of grass. But thevegetable gardens are of ample size, and this group ofstructures rounds out the completeness of this highly organ-ized estate, every part of which gives evidence of its ownersintelligent care and thought, and which must, to him, be asource of constant delight and satisfaction. He has sparedno effort to completely develop it. The Old-Fashioned Flower Garden of M. H. Wagar, Esq Montclair, New Jersey. R. WAGARS garden wasstarted a year ago lastspring on a bit of bor-rowed land just for thelove of seeing flowersgrow. Seldom has a garden been started undermore discouraging conditions. The onlyavailable ground was a vacant lot aboutseventy feet wide with a dilapidated barnon the rear. The ground was marshy andcovered with swamp grass, wild raspberrybushes and the empty bottles and tin cansof two or three generations of picnics. At the upper end of the lot was a springwhich supplies the water for a small lilypond in the center of the garden. A basin was dug about twenty-five feet indiameter and lined with cement. Pipe waslaid from the spring to the center of thebasin, from which it leaps like a little foun-tain. An overflow pipe is connected with asmall ditch lined with ferns and forget-me-nots.
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