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would probably appeal to us as little as 

 the stucco house or that "imposing marble 

 mansion" did. 



To say that architectural style alone 

 gives the house its atmosphere of stability 

 and of "having-been-lived-inishness" is as 

 one writer has said, "the veriest punk and 

 rot." Witness the perfectly designed (from 

 an archaeological viewpoint) Colonial 

 houses, or English villas that leave us 

 quite untouched. 



One cannot say, for instance, that this 

 Cranford house is Colonial because it has 

 such and such details. You will find none 

 of the favorite Colonial details employed 

 in its making. Rather it is in the elimina- 

 tion of them that the architects have shown 

 their greatest ability. It is that they have 

 made us acknowledge that this house has 

 that "100 per cent .'\nglo-Saxon home feel- 

 ing" and not that they have forced us to 

 admire a perfectly designed "Colonial sam- 

 pler" simply as such or that they have 

 made a design that overwhelms us with 

 its cleverness so that no room is left for 

 consideration of the homelike qualities of 

 the building. 



We who belong to the Anglo-Saxon race 

 must bow down to the Latin theory of 

 cities insofar as our business life is con- 

 cerned. But your true Anglo-Saxon is a 

 country born man w'th a soul th?' f'evelops 

 best among trees and fields and flowers 

 and plants. 



Naturally, then, the house that suggests 

 these things, and all of them, and the archi- 

 tect who arranges such houses for us, are 

 points toward which we turn in escaping 

 from our life in cities of Latin inspiration. 



Therefore, in the final ideal arrangement 

 of our lives, these things are among the 

 necessities to our happiness; a house like 

 the one we knew somewhere a long time 

 ago, a certain number of trees around that 

 house, some flowers, a garden, and a 

 stretch of green, open field or lawn. 



In America the house that measures up 

 to our standard is more often a frame one 

 and perhaps, if we were very fortunate in 

 our antecedents, a Colonial frame one. 



The Cranford one is Colonial. It is frame. 

 Parenthetically I might add for your in- 

 formation, should you attempt the erection 

 of a similar house, that the clapboards are 

 white pine, the shingles cypress and the 

 frame is spruce. 



The grounds are supplied with a certain 

 number of trees, and we have a hedge at 

 the street and flowers and vines in a little 

 strip of garden immediately at the foun- 

 datitm of the house. It is for these reasons 

 that the house interests us and stands out 

 from its neighbors in the nossession of 

 that subtle appearance of age and home- 

 likeness. 



In your house, if trees are not already 

 grown on the land, they may be trans- 

 planted, fully grown, by certain scientific 

 methods of removal and transplantation so 

 that you will not have to wait for years be- 

 fore your shade is an accomplished fact. 



1 niiubt liavc added, also (h.-id I not been 



too enthusiastically engaged in other in- 

 terests), that the exterior of the house 

 was painted with especially prepared white 

 lead and linseed oil and that the roof shin- 

 gles were stained. 



You may wonder what the cost of build- 

 ing all this psychological inspiration was. 

 Exclusive of the trees, and gardening, of 

 course, the cost of the house was $10,000. 



You see then, how important to our full 

 enjoyment of life, socially, psychologically 

 and domestically, a proper development 

 and understanding of forestry must be. 

 .'\nd how important it is for you, when you 

 build, to have your house designed by an 

 architect who understands it, and who 

 knows the value of white clapboard walls 

 and fences and green trees and shrubs 

 and enough flower garden space to pro- 

 vide just the right amount of bright color 

 — but not too much — to complete the out- 

 ward representation of the domestic hap- 

 piness tliat maintains within. 



BOOK REVIEWS 



The Development of Forest Law in Ameri- 

 ca, by J. P. Kiimey. John Wiley & Sons, 

 Inc., New York. 



As chief supervisor of forests. United 

 States Indian Service, Mr. Kinney has been 

 brought into intimate relationship with the 

 forest resources of the country and the 

 great mass of laws pertaining thereto. In 

 this book he has collated a mass of useful 

 information on this subject, the whole com- 

 prising a historical presentation of the 

 successive enactments by the Federal Con- 

 gress and by the legislatures of the states 

 directed to the conservation and adminis- 

 tration of forest resources. He has sought 

 to confine himself to a logical presentation 

 of the chronological development of legis- 

 lation. The field covered includes the 

 preservation of existing resources, the re- 

 forestation of cut-over or burned areas and 

 t!ie systematic management of forests for 

 productive purposes. For the sake of com- 

 l)leteness he has deemed it wise to include 

 references to a number of laws regarding 

 forest fires, shade trees and other related 

 subjects which were not strictly laws cm 

 I'orest conservation or administration. I'Or 

 convenient reference the author has in 

 most cases given both the date of the indi- 

 vidual act cited and the chapter number, 

 and to facilitate a ready finding of the law 

 he has often given the page in the session 

 laws as well. The work is important for 

 all who arc in any way interested in fm- 

 estry laws. 



A Nursery Blight of Cedars, by (ilenn (i. 

 Hahn, Carl Hartley and Roy G. Pierce. 

 Goverrment Printing Oflicc, Washington. 

 D. C. 



A Nursery Blight of Cedars is a treatise 

 by Glenn G. Hahn, scientific assistant; Carl 

 Hartley, forest pathologist and Roy G. 

 Pierce, forest assistant, investigations in 

 forest pathology, in the bureau of plant 

 industry of the United States Department 

 of .Agriculture. The treatise was originally 



published in the Journal of Agricultural 

 Research and is republished by authority 

 of the Secretary of .Xgriculture, with the 

 co-operation of the Association of Ameri- 

 can Agricultural Colleges and Experiment 

 Stations. It deals with a disease through 

 which nurserymen have for fifteen years 

 lost large quantities of red cedars. To 

 such extent has the damage manifested it- 

 self that several of the largest growers 

 have been forced to abandon the raising of 

 trees of this type, despite the fact that the 

 demand for them is sulTicicnt to make their 

 propagation of considerable inqiortance in 

 some of the nurseries of the middle west. 

 The authors of the booklet have conducted 

 extensive experiments in inoculation and 

 treatment of the parasitic growth. The 

 fungus has been obtained from Kansas, Ne- 

 braska, Iowa, Illinois and Pennsylvania. 

 Incomplete tests so far made in si)raying 

 with commercial lime sulphur solution and 

 Bordeaux mixture have given little indica- 

 tion of value as to control. 



Those interested in wood preservation 

 cannot fail to be impressed by a new book- 

 let on "How to Make Farm Timbers Rot- 

 proof," just issued by the Barrett Company. 

 This work treats of the treatment of tim- 

 bers for general construction purposes, 

 fence posts, shingles and silo staves and 

 foundations and deals with the use of Car- 

 bosota creosote oil as a substitute for paint ■ 

 for the checking of decay and because of ' 

 its qualities for the destruction of germs 

 and insects. Emphasis is placed on the 

 value of creosoted wood for excluding in- 

 sects and vermin, the eradication of chick- 

 en mites in chicken-houses, for keeping 

 ants and spiders away from beehives and 

 for checking the development and spread 

 of disease germs such as those of hog 

 cholera. Detailed discussion is given of 

 tlie open tank treatment of timbers, the 

 brush treatment, dipping and spraying. 



Under the title of "The Sport Alluring," 

 tlie DuPont Company of Wilmington, Del., 

 has just issued a very attractive book deal- 

 ing with trapshooting. The book is at- 

 tractively printed and handsomely illus- 

 trated with thirty or more pictures that 

 will be of interest to all sportsmen. In its M 

 unfolding of the possibilities of trapshoot- " 

 ing the book throws much interesting light 

 on the subject. The book may be had on 

 ajiplication. 



.\s a companion to "Handbook of Ex- 

 plcisives," the DuPont Company of Wil- 

 mington, Del., has issued "The Giant La- 

 borer. This booklet deals entertainingly and 

 completely with the apjilication of explo- 

 sives to various agricultural and miscella- 

 neous uses. It details the advantages of 

 explosives in land clearing, ditching, drain- 

 age work, subsoiling, tree-planting and or- 

 chard cultivation. "The Handbook of Ex- 

 plosives" gives full instructions as to the 

 handling of explosives for these and other 

 purposes. Both books may be had on ap- 

 plication. 



