October, 1 'J 5 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



103 



THE REASON FOR SUBSCRIBING 



IT is even more profitable for us to have our 

 readers buy The Garden Magazine at 

 the newsstands instead of subscribing, but 

 because the magazine is valuable as a book 

 complete in half-yearly volumes, many per- 

 sons wish us to supply issues they have neg- 

 lected to buy on the newsstands. A safer 

 way is to send $i for a year's subscription, in 

 which case the subscriber gets the double 

 numbers without extra price. It can be sent 

 through your newsdealer or direct. Always 

 state with what number the subscription 

 should begin. 



VOLUME I, "GARDEN MAGAZINE" 



Eventually this volume will be extremely 

 valuable, and many people will want it to 

 complete their sets when it is unobtainable. 

 We have a limited supply of this first volume 

 in bound form. Price, postpaid, bound in 

 cloth, $1.35. We cannot supply separate 

 copies of the February nor of the April num- 

 bers. Of the March, May, June, July and 

 August numbers we have a supply for people 

 who wish to fill their files. 



THE GARDEN LIBRARY AND NATURE BOOKS 



The first volume, "Roses and How to 

 Grow Them," is now ready. The second 

 volume, "Ferns and How to Grow Them," 

 we expect to have ready toward the latter 

 part of October. Other and larger books 

 in the nature field will be "The Tree Book," 

 by Miss Julia E. Rogers, of which we will 

 give more particulars elsewhere; and "The 

 Frog Book," by Miss Mary C. Dicker- 

 son. Meanwhile, new parts of "The Dog 

 Book" are published each month, and "The 

 Poultry Book" is finally complete. 



CHANGE OF ADDRESS 



We receive thousands of requests to change 

 addresses every month, and regret that we 

 are often obliged to inconvenience our cus- 

 tomers because they give us only the address 

 to which they wish the magazine sent. Our 

 files are not kept alphabetically but geograph- 

 ically. For instance, a subscriber by the 

 name of Smith is not kept under the initial 

 of his name, but according, first, to the state 

 in which he lives, and, next, to the town. 

 Therefore, if he writes to us, and tells us to 



"To business that we love we rise betime 

 And go to 't with delight." — Antony and Cleopatra. 



send the magazine to Springfield, Illinois, we 

 are hopelessly at sea to know from what 

 state to transfer him. If our readers will 

 remember this in making their requests for 

 change of address, it will very much simplify 

 our work. 



"COUNTRY LIFE IN AMERICA" BUILDING 

 NUMBER 





in America 



The beautiful three-color cover for October 



The best issue that has ever been printed 

 of this magazine is the October number, 

 which might easily be worth $1,000 to any 

 one contemplating building a home. 



Here is a partial table of contents : 



What Constitutes a Successful Country Home. 



Reconstruction with an Ax. 



A $10,000 Home in the Virginia Mountains. 



A House Built Around a Garden. 



The Planning of a House. 



How to Estimate What a House will Cost. 



Building a Fireplace in Time for Christmas. 



New Ideas in Window Construction. 



The Sanitation of a Country House. 



The Astonishing Advance in Concrete Houses. 



The Plumbing, Heating, and Lighting of a $15,000 



Country House. 

 Sensible Walks and Drives. 

 And other interesting articles. 



BOOK CAREERS 



A few years ago "Bob, Son of Battle," by 

 Alfred Ollivant, a novel now famous, was 

 published and did not sell. A bookseller in 

 Milwaukee became interested in the book 

 and bought in lots of twenty-five; it began to 

 have friends who recommended it, and now 

 about 51,000 have been sold. 



The same thing is happening with what 

 might be called a Nature Novel, a story en- 

 titled "Freckles," though several thousand 

 were sold at the start. A man in Chicago 

 became enamored of the book, and began to 

 buy in lots of ioo and gave them to his em- 

 ployees; a bookseller in Rochester got inter- 

 ested and sold several hundred. A half 

 dozen instances like this have come up in a 

 week, and we expect to see the day when we 

 shall print the book in lots of 10,000. 



To any reader of The Garden Magazine 

 who will order the book from his bookstore 

 and read it, Doubleday, Page & Company 

 will agree to replace the book by any other 

 published by them if it does not please him. 



BENDING CASES 



We will send for 75 cents a binding case 

 in which to preserve the numbers as they 

 come out. These must not be confused with 

 the bound volume case, which can be used 

 by a local binder to bind the volume in per- 

 manent form ; this binding case is 50 cents, 

 postpaid. 



OCTOBER "WORLD'S WORK" 



A glance at the partial table of contents, 

 given below, for the October World's Work, 

 shows the broad scope of this number of the 

 magazine, which, our friends tell us, state? 

 the essence of the happenings of the time in 

 convenient as well as attractive form; it is a 

 succinct narrative of the progress of the 

 world, complete, striking, valuable. 



Our Financial Oligarchy, Sereno S. Pratt. 



The Automobile in Industry, H. Olerich. 



The Story of the Granger Lines, the second of the series 



"The Railroads and the Square Deal," Rowland 



Thomas. 

 Making a Living by Writing, Gilson Willets. 

 Our Mix-up in Santo Domingo the second of the series on 



the "Control of the Caribbean," by Eugene P. Lyle, Jr. 

 The Confessions of a Speculator. 



Great Changes in the Railroad Problem, William Z. Ripley. 

 The Real Mr. Jerome, M. G. Cunniff. 

 Federal Regulation of Insurance, Senator John F. Drvden. 

 The New Science cf Business. 



