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■Water Po'^ver. By Joseph P. Feizell. An 

 outline of the development and application of the 

 energy of flowing water. Price, $B.OV 



Concrete, Plain and Reinforced. By 



Frederick W. Taylor and Sanfoed E. Thompson. 

 Designed for practicing engineers and contractors; 

 text and reference book for students. Discusses 

 materials, processes, and applications of concrete in 

 construction and specifications. Price, $5.00 



Hydraulics. By Mansfield Merriman. Pur- 

 pose of book is to keep abreast of modern progress, 

 and present subject witli conciseness and clearness. 

 Gives general principles and discusses flow of water 

 through various kinds of openings and channels. 

 Historical notes and references. Price, $5.00 



Foundations. By W. M. Patton. A practica) 

 treatise explaining fully the principles involved. 

 Numerous descriptions of important modern struc- 

 tures are given in sufficient detail. Includes arti- 

 cles on use of concrete in foundations. Price, $5.00 



9Iasonry «.:onscruction. By Ira 0. Baker. 

 Contains results of a great number of experiments, 

 and a large amount of practical data on cott of 

 masonry, pile driving, foundations, culverts, etc., 

 and 97 tables to facilitate estimating. Price. $5.00 



Reinforced Concrete. By Albert W. 

 BuELand Charles S. Hill. A treatise for design- 

 ing and constructing engineers, governed by 

 American practice and conditions. Theoretical dis- 

 cussions omitted, and replaced by practical work- 

 ing formulas, examples of representative structures, 

 and records of practice. Price, $5.00^ 



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utilization of ''Wrood Waste toy Distillation.— By Walter B. Harper. An important treatise 

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The Garden 



Roses and How to Gro^jv Xhem. By 



many Experts. In text, practical; in subject and 

 quality of illustrations, beautiful. Price, $1.20 



Kerns and How to Grow Them. By 



G. A. WuOLSON. The growing of hardy ferns, both 

 in the garden and indoors. Price, $1.20 



I^awns and How to make Xtoem. By 



Leonard Barron. For the tirst time the subject of 

 lawn seed mixtures is set forth and explained. 32 

 photographs. Price, $1.20 



Ho'w to make School Gardens. By H. 



D. Hemenway. This suggestive little book is a 

 piactical manual of school gardening for both 

 teacher and pupil, and supplies the first adequate 

 work of the sort in this country. There are to-day a 

 hundred thousand school gardens in Europe, and 

 the progress of the recent movement in America 

 has been most rapid. This volume is based on 

 actual experience (the author is an authority and 

 director of the Hartford School of Horticulture). 

 Illustrations, 10. Price, $1.10 



How to Tttake a Fruit Garden. By S. 



W. Fletcher An eminently practical work on 

 the subject of fruits for the home. With 182 photo- 

 graphic illustrations by the author. Price $2.25 



Ho-wYto make a Flow^er Garden. A 



charming and a practical book by experts on every 

 branch of the subject. More than 200 beautiful 

 photographs. Price, $1.75 



How^Uo make a Vegetatole Garden. 



By Edith L. Fullerton. The only adequate book 

 on' the home vegetable garden. 250 photographs 

 by.H. B. Fullerton. Price, $2.20 



Art and Cratt of Garden makingr* By 



Thomas H. Mawson. Third edition of this stand- 

 ard; out of print for a year, and now reissued in 

 revised form. Over 100 plans and details of gardens. 

 Methods employed by successful designers care- 

 fully analyzed. Characteristic sites in^ypical dis- 

 stricts described and pictured. Price, $16.00 



The Home and Farm 



The Country House. By Charles Edw. 

 Hooper. A practical manual of house building, 

 absolutely invaluable to everyone with a country 

 place. It covers every branch of t'le subject in 

 detail and treats of the garden and its furnishings in 

 connection with the dwelling. 380 photographs 

 and plans. Price, $3.30 



Three Acres and l,itoerty. By Bolton 

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 on a small place in the way of gardening, home- 

 making, and addition to financial resources. Were 

 it not for the unimpeachable authorities quoted, 

 its statements as to the possibilities of the " Little 

 Lands" for a living would seem fanciful. 



Price, $1.85. 



The making of a Country Home. By 



J. P. Mowbray ("J. P. M."). This delightful story 

 showed its universal appeal when published ser- 

 ially, and the volume amply carries out the inten- 

 tion of the author. Besides its practical interest 

 for the thousands of city dwellers who have dreamed 

 of having a country home, the story is one of such 

 reality, humor, and interest as to ensure it the 

 widest circulation in book form. Elaborately 

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The First Book of Farming. By 

 Charles L. Goodrich. No one interested in farm- 

 ing, old or young, can fail to appreciate this book, 

 for it really gives the fundamental knowledge of 

 how to conduct a farm with the least expense and 

 the largest return. There are 63 full pages of help- 

 ful illustrations. The price is extremely low for a 

 work of such value. 63 pages of photographs. 



Price, $1.10 



Nature Books 



American Food and Game Fishes. 



By David Starr Jordan and B. W. Evermann. 

 Fills a long-felt need in popular scientific works, 

 being a full account of the life-histories and meth- 

 ods of capture of North American food and game 

 fishes.. The only book in existence which will 

 enable the amateur readily to identify species new 

 to him. With 10 lithographed color plates, 100 

 photographs of live fish in the water, and 200 text 

 cuts. Price, $4.40 



]Xature Biographies. By Clarence M. 

 Weed. This volume is a sort of personal acquaint- 

 ance with the lives of the more common butter- 

 flies, moths, grasshoppers, flies, and so on. the sort 

 of fascinating details of these insecc existences 

 which make the reader want to go out and study 

 these every-day marvels for himself. l.'>0 photo- 

 graphic illustrations. Price. $1.50 



The Brook Book. By Mary Rogers Miller, 

 A brook is one of the most living and companion- 

 able features of the landscape, and few people, 

 even the most ardent nature lovers, realize what 

 an endlessly interesting study its changes and 

 its throbbing life afford. It is a fascinating subject 

 which the author (well known as a teacher, lec- 

 turer, and writer connected with the Nature Study 

 Bureau at Cornell) handles with much ability. lt> 

 photographs. Price, $1.50 



Outdoors. A Book of the Woods, Fields and 

 Marshlands. By Ernest McGaffey. Papers on 

 out of doors, showing a love of nature and keen- 

 ness of observation and power and beauty of de- 

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Iifature and The Camera. By A. Rad- 

 clyffe Dugmore. Mr. Dugqaore is an expert in 

 the new movement of photographing live birds, 

 animals, fish, flowers, etc. His works brought him 

 so many requests for information, that he has set 

 down here a full and detailed account of his meth- 

 ods. From the choice of a camera to questions of 

 lighting, and to the problem of "snapping" shy 

 birds and animals in their native haunts, every 

 step is explained so simply as to be easily compre- 

 hended, even by the beginner. 53 photographic 



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