March 4, 1916 



H R T I U L T TJ R B 



325 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING OR CON- 

 TEMPLATED. 



Lakeside, O. — Wm. Knight, one 

 house. 



Corfu, N. Y. — W. Preisach, house 

 35 X 200. 



Christiana, Pa.— M. J. Brinton, Lord 

 & Burnhara house. 



Parkersburg, W. Va.— J. W. Dudley 

 & Son, 80 ft. addition. 



Little Compton, R. I. — Peckham 

 Bros., house 100 x 200. 



Stevens Point, Wis.— W. B. Macklin. 

 two houses in the summer. 



Kennebunk, Me.— Paul I. Andrews, 

 Storer street, range of houses. 



Dayton, O.— Harry F. Tredway Flo- 

 ral Co.. 513 Valley street, additions. 



Alliance, Neb. — Alliance Green- 

 houses, E. W. Ray, proprietor, one 

 house. 



Wellsville, N. Y.— Sandy Flats Farm, 

 Floral and Truck Gardens, range of 

 houses. 



Chicago, III.— John S. Witt & Son, 

 10,429 Wallace street, two houses each 

 20'x 126. 



Cleveland, O. — Lorraine Avenue 

 Greenhouses, five Moninger houses 

 each 30 x 376. 



Decatur, 111.— Daut Bros., four 

 houses each 36 x 300, American 

 Greenhouse Mfg. Co. construction. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Farmers' Bulletins Nos. 705, 708 and 

 710 of the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture are devoted to the Catalpa 

 Sphinx, The Leopard Moth and Bridge 

 Grafting of Fruit Trees, respectively. 

 All are illustrated and will be found 

 very instructive. 



Bulletin 361 of the College of Agri- 

 culture at Ithaca, N. Y., sent out by 

 the Department of Landscape Art, is 

 an exceedinglv useful pamphlet of 144 

 pages. It is entitled "The Home 

 Grounds." Part I, by E. G. Davis, cov- 

 ers the arrangement of the home 

 grounds, with many diagrams of sug- 

 gestive treatment, half-tone views, 

 plans, etc., and some very instructive 

 chapters on planting, grouping, etc. 

 Part II, by R. W. Curtis, gives a list 

 of trees, herbaceous shrubs, perennials 

 and other materials suitable for the 

 home grounds, with a lot of valuable 

 technical and practical information fol- 

 lowed bv a splendid index of plants, 

 giving cross reference, pronunciation 

 and synonymy. 



Our Early Wild Flowers, by Harriet 

 L Keeler. Illustrated by Mary Kefter; 

 color plates by Eloise P. Luquer. A 

 compact little volume which may be 

 conveniently carried about and used 

 by the nature student in country ram- 

 bles Its contents are comprehensive 

 and authoritative, its descriptive notes 

 are written with exactness, concise- 

 ness and svmpathy, and in all respects 

 it is admirably arranged to fill the pur- 

 pose for which it was intended. The 

 half-tone and color plates are excel- 

 lent The field covered lies between 

 the Atlantic Coast and the Mississippi 

 river and between parallels forty and 

 fifty north latitude. Herbaceous flow- 

 ers are considered only. The book is 

 published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 

 New York. Price $1.00 in cloth and 

 $1 25 in leather, net; 252 pages, 7 color 

 plates, 12 halt-tones and 94 line draw- 

 ings. 



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October 16, 1915. 

 Mr. Benjamin Hammond, Beacon, N. Y. 



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November 3, 1916. 

 Mr. Benjamin Hammond, Beacon, N. Y. 



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