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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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GARDEN and FARM LIBRARY. 



PRACTICAL AND COMPLETE. 



These volumes will cover every important department 

 point of view. Not a scientitic treatise, but written 



THE GARDEN LIBRARY. 

 Vol. 1. — Roses and How to Grow Them. — (By many 



experts.) In text, practical; in subject and quality 

 of illustration, beautiful. Price $1.21. 



Vol. 2.— Ferns and How to Grow Them.— (By G. A. 



Woolson. (The growing of hardy ferns, both in the 

 garden and indoors. Price $1.21. 



VOL. 3.— Lawns and How to Make Them.— (By 



Leonard Barron.) For the first time the subject 

 of lawn-seed mixtures is set forth and explained; 

 32 photographs. Price $1.21. 



Vol. 4. — Vines and How to Grow Them.— (By William 



MeCollom.) Dealing with these delightful climbing 



and trailing plants for the adornment of trellis, pillar, 



and wall, with suggestive directions. Illustrated 



from photographs. Price $1.21. 



THE FARM LIBRARY. 



For years a library has been planned which should 

 do for the farmer what the Nature Library does for 

 the student and lover of nature. An effort has been 

 made in this library to take advantage of the wealth 

 of special knowledge which has revolutionized agri- 

 culture in the last few decades. It is beginning for 

 the first time to be an exact, not a haphazard, science. 

 Here every farmer, every man who has a country 

 place, every person who has anything to do with the 

 soil, will find an interesting, readable, practical, 

 specific guide to the whole subject. 

 Soils; How to Handle and Improve Them.— (By S5. W. 



Fletcher.) More than 100 photographs. Price $2.20. 

 Farm Management, Accounts, Management.etc — (By 



F. W. Card.) With many photographs. Price $2.20. 

 Farm Animals, Cow, Horse, Sheep, Swine.— 



(By E. V. Wilcox.) A valuable manual of how to 

 breed, care for, use, and doctor the animals on the 

 farm. Price $2.20. 



Cotton. (By Charles W. Burkett and Charles H. 



Poe.) About the only book in existence covering 

 every side of this great subject. Price $2.20. 



Fruit Recipes. By Riley M. Fletcherberry. A unique 



book on the uses of fruits as food. The author not 

 only shows the unappreciated value of fruit, but gives 

 900 different recipes for fruit dishes. No former volume 

 has ever given such a complete and suggestive col- 

 lection. Illustrated from photographs. Price $1.65. 

 Birds Every Child should Know (the East). — By 



Neltje Blanchan. This is bound to be a real factor 

 in awakening an interest in birds among younger peo- 

 ple, and every child who reads it will have a feeling 

 of intimate acquaintance with many of the feathered 

 friends which have been hitherto mere names or quite 

 unknown. Nearly 100 photographs from life. $1.32. 

 Birds Every Child should Know (the West). By W. 



L. Finley. This volume covers the birds which a 

 child living on the Pacific Coast (or west of the 

 Rockies) would be most apt to have chances of study- 

 ing. The illustrations of live wild birds are marvels 

 of nature photography. Price $1.32. 



How to Make School Gardens. By H. D. Hemenway. 



This suggestive little book is a practical manual of 

 school gardening for both teacher and pupil, and sup- 

 plies the first adequate work of the sort in this coun- 

 try. There are to-day a hundred thousand school 

 gardens in Europe, and the progress of the recent 

 movement in America has been most rapid. Many of 

 the leaders in educational matters wished to substitute 

 this study as the basis and beginning of all nature 

 work — as is the case to-day in Russia and other coun- 

 tries where no school can receive state funds unless it 

 has a garden connected with it. This volume is bas- 

 ed on actual experience (the author is an authority, 

 and director of the Hartford School of Horticulture). 

 Illustrations 10. Price $1.10. 



Home Games and Parties. By Mrs. Rorer. For years 



the "Ladies Home Journal" has devoted much space 

 to the best games and fresh ideas for entertaining an 

 evening company. In this little volume are gathered 

 over one hundred of the best of these, which will be 

 found most valuable in giving ideas for evening enter- 

 tainments. Price $ .50. 



^hft A. I. ROOT COMPANY 



of fruit, vegetable, and flower gardening from the home 

 in a lively, attractive style. Beautifully illustrated. 



How to Build a Home. By F, C. Moore. While there 

 are dozens of books giving an endless variety of de- 

 signs for houses, this is an unusual book which tells 

 " How to Build a Home " — a book which will stand at 

 one's elbow, so to speak, and answer all technical and 

 practical questions. A close study of it will save 

 omissions and put the amateur builder in possession of 

 all the information necessary to build to the best ad- 

 vantage. Illustrations, specimen plans, drawings, 

 etc. Price $1.00. 



Bird Neighbors.— (By Neltje Blanchan.) The birds 

 are classified in five different ways, making identi- 

 fication immediately possible without technical 

 knowledge. There are 48 plates in colors, and 16 black 

 and white. Price $2.00. 



Birds that Hunt and are Hunted.— (By Neltje Blan- 

 chan.) This is an account of 170 birds of prey, 

 game-birds, and waterfowl. The life-histories of 

 these little-known birds are fully given, and identi- 

 fication is aided by 64 color-plates and 16 plates in 

 black and white. Price $2.00. 



How to Attract the Birds.— (By Neltje Blanchan.) 

 These intimate, suggestive, and charmingly written 

 chapters are ornamented with a great number of ex- 

 traordinary photographs, and form an altogether 

 unique work on the almost untouched subject of 

 "making friends" with the "bird neighbor,"' to 

 whom the author has introduced so many thousands 

 of readers. Illustrations, 110. Price $1.49. 



Bird Homes.— (By A. R. Dugmore.) This is a com- 

 plete manual of birds' nests, eggs, and breeding- 

 habits, containing also valuable hints on nature pho- 

 tography, by an author whose intimate knowledge 

 of bird life has made him famous. Illustrations: 16 

 color-plates, and 82 other pictures. Price $2.20. 



Among the Waterfowl. — (By Herbert K. Job.) Mr. 

 Job has for years made a special study of the gulls 

 and waterfowl whose life-histories are the least known 

 of our wild birds. At sea, in the far north, and in the 

 swamps of Dakota where they breed, he has studied 

 these gulls, ducks, and geese to such good purpose 

 that his entertaining narrative contains much of real 

 information. Illustrations, about 08. Price $1.49. 



Nature's Garden (Wild Flowers).— (By Neltje Blan- 

 chan.) A most interesting and beautiful book, en- 

 ables any one to identify all the common wild flowers 

 of the North American continent, and introduces the 

 reader to their marvelous life-histories and the part 

 which insects play in these. Illustrations: 32 

 color-plates, and 48 black and white, all from photo- 

 graphs of the actual flower. Price $3.30. 

 The Butterfly Book.— (By Dr. W. J. Holland.) He 

 has introduced thousands of readers to the delight- 

 ful study of butterflies and caterpillars. Its 48 color- 

 plates are the finest ever made by the three-color 

 photographic process; and in these and the text cuts, 

 fully a thousand different species of butterflies are 

 shown. Dr. Holland's unquestionable position as the 

 authority on butterflies, and his ability to write in a 

 popular way, make this a most important volume. 

 Chapters on the capture and preservation of butter- 

 flies add much to the practical value of the book. $3.30. 

 The Brook Book.— (By Mary Rogers Miller.) A brook 

 is one of the most living and companionable 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, lecturer, and writer connected with the 

 Nature Study Bureau at Cornell) handles with much 

 ability; 16 photographs. Price $1.50 

 Nature and the Camera.— (By R. A. Radclyfle Dug- 

 more.) Mr. Dugmore is an expert in the new move- 

 ment of photographing live birds, animals, flsh, flow- 

 ers, etc. His works brought him so many requests 

 for information, he has set down here a full and de- 

 tailed account of his methods. From the choice of a 

 camera to the questions of lighting, and to the prob- 

 lem of "snapping" shy birds and animals in their 

 native haunts— every step is explained so simply as 

 to be easily comprehended, even by the beginner: 53 

 photographic illustrations. Price $1.50. 



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