The Choice of Trees

and Shrubbery

A booklet of 20 pages, called "The Landscape Beautiful," has been published by H. R. Cotta, landscape architect, engineer and contractor, of Rockford, Ill., and contains some very attractive illustrations of plantings of trees and shrubbery, with descriptions written from a practical point of view. All the illustrations are from original untouched photographs done for a few of the Cotta Nursery's

clients, and show the amount of growth obtained in a given length of time and the results in character and design. The requirements for suitable and successful designing of park and private grounds are outlined, and the views, with their clear descriptions, furnish many excellent suggestions. Under the caption of "Opportunity" a handy pamphlet is issued by the Cotta Nursery, listing flowering shrubbery, vines, shade and street trees, evergreen and fruit trees, plants, etc., offered for immediate delivery.

Making Roads

The oil spraying trailer illustrated herewith is made by the Universal Road Machinery Company, of Kingston, N. Y., and is designed as a practical substitute for expensive tank wagons with pumping and spraying attachments. The standpipe shown is connected by a suction hose to any kind of tank or to a barrel carried on a wagon. By means of a force pump geared to the axle the oil is drawn from the tank or wagon and forced through the large strainer box direct to the spraying nozzles. The spraying is done under pressure, and is said to be evenly and satisfactorily accomplished. The gears may be engaged or disengaged by the movement of a lever, and the pump is by-passed through a pressure regulator, so that damage to it is prevented in case of shutting off the valves suddenly. An air chamber is provided above the strainer, which insures a steady pressure at the nozzles, and the strainer may be opened, cleaned and closed in a few minutes' time. The spraying nozzles are of the most approved type, are arranged in two batteries of six nozzles each, and are controlled by two convenient levers reached from a seat where the operator is in full view of the work. A connecting link enables the operator to manipulate all the nozzles with one lever, if desired, and the quantity of oil discharged can be regulated to a nicety.

This and other forms of road-making machinery are illustrated and described in a new catalogue published by the company, and include crushers, street sweepers, scarifiers, storage bins for crushed stone, bin jacks, screening plants, etc.

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Progress of Asphalt Industry

Aside from the figures that tell the story of financial operations, the annual report of the General Asphalt Company for the year ending April 30 contains some matters of general interest to municipalities and the paving and road building industry. As showing the policy of the company to encourage the widest distribution of its products through other contractors than its own operating organization, The Barber Asphalt Paving Company, paving operations slightly decreased while the sales of asphalt so far increased that the total vol

RELIANCE OIL SPRAYER

ume of business done in the past year is nearly $300,000 in excess of that of the year previous. The entire tonnage of Trinidad and Bermudez asphalts sold and consumed was 321,222 tons as compared with 300,403 tons in 1912.

Under the heading of Maintenance of Pavements the report shows that in 1905 the average length of guaranty was 7.2 years, and the percentage of pavements laid without guaranty 6.4. In 1913 the average length of guaranty was 2.45 years and percentage of pavements laid without guaranty 51.6. This appears to indicate that municipalities have seen the wisdom of getting cheaper pavements by assuming their own guaranties, and have found this to be the best and most economical policy.

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N our Ionic Design

IN

we offer a standard that is not only ornamental but will give the most Uniform System of Street Lighting. This Standard is fast revolutionizing street lighting in not only the larger cities but the smaller towns and municipalities and all are waking up to fact, that this means of beautifying the street is not beyond their reach. They are realizing that the small investment necessary to secure adequate lighting through our standard is more than justified by the increased valuation of real estate on the streets affected. Can be furnished as illustrated or with all lights turned upright. Write for Prices and Catalogue Illustrating Full Line

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CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee

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read without turning the pages. This is accomplished by making each successive page longer by a line of reading matter printed at the bottom; the underlapping pages thus index the information contained in the bulletin, which is conveyed principally by illustrations and brief, direct captions. The devices pictured include air valves for pipe lines; air and vacuum poppet valves; gauges of rate of flow, loss of head and elevation; manometers with Venturi and Pitot tubes; filter gauges and rate controllers; meter registers of different types; altitude valves, etc. ++

An Automatic Pump

The Laurson automatic pump, manufactured by the Laurson Automatic Pump Company, of Eau Claire, Wis., provides a system of elevating water without power other than that generated within the pump itself. It can be operated even where only a small fall is available. Its operation does not depend directly on the velocity of the water coming into it, and it can therefore be placed immediately under the water supply or at any slant, thus avoiding a long intake pipe. It requires no storage tank or reservoir, for it forces the water under direct pressure into the pipes of the water system, the pressure being regulated entirely by the fall of water and the size of machine used.

Only a round covered pit in the ground is needed to protect the pump from frost, but in places where the pump is not operated in winter, as in irrigation work, even such housing is not necessary, provided the cylinders are drained when the pump is not in use. The power for operation is furnished entirely by the water supply, and thus a great expense factor is eliminated.

Various models of this pump are illustrated and described in a catalogue issued by the manufacturers, and are designed for city and village water works, for mills and factories,

A Grout Mixer for Paving Work

A clever substitute for the old-style box for mixing grout to fill in the joints between paving brick has been found in the grout mixer manufactured by The Jaeger Machine Company, of Columbus, Ohio, which does the work in a more satisfactory manner and at less cost than by hand. The sand and cement are dumped from wheelbarrows into the loader bucket, hoisted up and dumped into the machine. Water flows in automatically from the water tank, and the material is thoroughly mixed. It is then distributed through a spout as desired. The machine is easily operated by one man, and moves by its own power. It is light in weight, and its wheels, which are 6 inches wide in the front and 9 inches wide in the rear, make it run easily over the brick pavements.