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accommodating at all times, and to all 

 its customers, that dealing with the 

 Company, or even asking for optical in- 

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 The Company is never too busy to help 

 even the tyro. It actually seems to take 

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Describing What has been Seen. 



Ruskin says that it is a rare gift to 

 be able to see and to describe, but in 

 these talents and their development is 

 the great value of nature observations, 

 especially in the schoolroom, even with 

 young children. Words correctly used 

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A Good Photographic Magazine. 



We cordially recommend to our read- 

 ers "Camera Craft." published at San 

 Francisco and edited by that enthusiastic 

 expert, Fayette J. Clute. He seems in- 

 tuitively to know what nature photog- 

 raphers need. The magazine is practical 

 and informative rather than abstract or 

 theoretical. 



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Prizes Won by Fox Terriers. 



Spratt's Trophy, value fifty dollars, 

 for the best brace in IQT4 shows was 

 won bv Mr. G. W. Ouintard's Ridge- 

 wav Kennels with the following fox 

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Ch. Mat ford Vic Ridgewav Corker 



Ch. Raby Dazzler Cromwell Cheeky 



Hardy English Walnut Trees. 



New Milford Conn. 

 To the Editor : 



A few years ago my father found a 

 hardy English Walnut tree which had 

 been transplanted from Northern 

 Europe. This tree was bearing nuts of 

 exceptional flavor and fullness of meat ; 

 in fact, better than any he had ever 

 seen. He procured some of the nuts to 

 plant on his farm near Lockport, New 

 York, but. the children found them and 

 ate all but seven. These seven all grew 

 and in a few years the young trees 

 began to bear nuts fully as good as the 

 ( >riginals. 



Father" was very proud of his seven 

 trees which were fast proving to be the 

 most valuable on his farm, one having" 

 produced sixty dollars worth of nuts 

 in a single year. They were also the 

 handsomest trees in the county, being 

 tall and shapely with a dense dark 

 green foliage and white bark. 



Horticulturists came from all parts 

 of the country to see the trees, as it has 

 not been considered possible to grow 

 them successfully in the North. They 

 found them very hardy and the nuts the 

 best they had ever eaten. They 

 were so delighted that they asked 

 father to raise them some trees from 

 his old ones,, realizing that these would 

 be thoroughly acclimated. The re- 

 quests were so persistent that father did 

 so, the result being that these trees are 

 now widely distributed in all the 

 Northern and most of the Southern and 

 Atlantic States They have proven to 

 be perfectly hardy. 



We will have a few of these young- 

 trees ready for spring planting. I have 

 written, thinking your readers would be 

 interested in having some for their home 

 grounds or farms. 



Yours respectfully, 



E. C. Pomeroy. 



A Great Educational Magazine. 



I read The Guide to Nature reg- 

 ularly every month. It is a great edu- 

 cational magazine of practical natural 

 science. Its contents are of immense 

 value to all that take any, even the 

 least, interest in the affairs of nature. 

 Its illustrations are superb. I wash 

 you continued success in the coming 

 year. — R. Menger, M. D., San Antonio. 

 Texas. 



