November, 190 5 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



1574 



A Home Furnished With Books 



^T Can you imagine a more delightful life than days spent outdoors in the Indian summer 

 ^J_ preparing for fall and winter, trimming shrubbery, raking lawns, setting out bulbs, 

 and then indoors before the fireplace, under the green shade of the lamp, with a shelf 

 of books at your elbow to pass away the long evenings? Talk about the simple life! But 

 this is the well-rounded life, body and mind both alert, employed and happy. 



As for the books which should be a part of the furniture of every home, here are a 

 round dozen new ones, eight just published, and four that have already found friends. 

 These books are especially selected for their appeal to the readers of The Garden Maga- 

 zine. All lovers of ^ .m. .../i outdoors are lovers „ hv .„ of good books. 



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Making a Home 



The Country 



Home 



By E. P. Powell. "With many 

 half-tone illustrations. Cloth, 

 i2mo. Postpaid, $1.69; net, $1.50. 

 This is a practical book that no person 

 seeking to make a home in the country can 

 afford to be without. The book takes up 

 the problem of establishing one's self in 

 the country specifically under the following 

 headings : Selecting a Homestead, Grow- 

 ing a House, Water Supply, Lawns, Or- 

 chard, Strawberries, Grapes, Flowers, 

 Truck Garden, The Insects, The Animals, 

 The Beautiful and the Useful . etc. The en- 

 thusiasm of the writer and his appreciation 

 of all the beauties of the country make this 

 book pleasant reading for every nature lover. 



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The Care of a Home 



The Complete 

 Housekeeper 



By Emily Holt, author of " Encyclope' 

 dia of Etiquette." Nine Illustrations 

 Cloth, i2mo. Postpaid, $1.76 ; net, $1. 

 It gives you in anutshtell the simplest and best solu- 

 tion of all housekeeping problems ; an A-B-C of 

 household management for every-day use, sure to 

 prove infinitely useful to the woman at the head of the 

 house, whether experienced or not. Kitchen Con- 

 veniences ; Repairs and Restoration; Concerning 

 Closets; House-Cleaning; In the Laundry; Cleaning 

 of China ; Glass and Metal ; Keeping Things ; Four- 

 footed Friends ; Pets and Poultry; Lawn and Gar- 

 den, Greenhouse, Window Gardens and House 

 Plants ; Plumbing and Sanitation ; The Water- 

 supply; Lighting and Heating; Sick-room ard 

 Nursing ; Bleaches, Disinfectants and Insecticides ; 

 Healing Simples; The Family Sewing; Plain Sewing. 



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Home Work Outdoors 



The Orchard and 

 Fruit Garden 



By E. P. Powell. Illustrated. Post- 

 paid, $1.68; net, $1.50. 

 This second volume in the Country Home Library 

 deals with the choice planting and cultivation of fruit, 

 fruit-bearing trees and bushes. Every known variety 

 of fruit that grows in America is considered. General 

 advice as to the nature, excellencies and defects of each 

 fruit is gi ven, and a list of those likely to do best in vari- 

 ous localities, with many valuable hints on cultivation. 



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More Work Outdoors 



The Flower Garden 



Ida D. Bennett. Forty-seven illustrations. 



Cloth, i2mo. Postpaid, $2.17 ; net, $2.00. 



No branch of flower raising: is overlooked in this 

 book. It is a complete guide, treating of indoor gar- 

 dens — window boxes, household plants, water gardens, 

 etc. — as well as of the usual outdoor plots. It is espe- 

 cially practical, clear and simple, and is full of useful 

 suggestions out of the author's own experience. The 

 following are some of the chapter headings 

 Location and Arrangement of the Garden: 

 Seeds ; Fertilizers ; Purchasing of Seeds ; 

 Transplanting and Repotting ; Outside 

 Window Boxes; Vines; Omamental Foli- 

 age; Plants from Seed; Aquatics; The Care 

 of the Summer Rose-bed; The Hardy Lily- 

 bed ; Hardy Shrubs and Plants for Fall 

 Planting ; Winter Protection ; The Care of 

 House Plants in Winter; Common English 

 Names of Flowers ; Blooming Season of 

 VariousTrees, Shrubsand Plants; A Chap- 

 terofOddsand Ends; A Chapter of Don'ts. 



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A Delightful Trip 

 Away from Home 



My Friend the 

 Chauffeur 



By C. N. and A. M. William- 

 son, the authors of " The 

 Lightning Conductor " and 

 "The Princess Passes." Illus- 

 trated. Cloth, i2mo, $1.50. 



Every man and woman whose soul has 

 felt and responded to the heart-throbs of 

 a motor, who knows its sighs and sobs, 

 its little ailments and its great strength, 

 will find that " My Friend the Chaufieur" 

 breathes the spirit of automobiling. All 

 those who have had experience in or 

 hope to enjoy foreign travel, picturesque 

 scenery, quaint towns and ancient castles, 

 may take delight in these things under the 

 guidance of " My Friend the Chauffeur." 

 All those who like a good love story, 

 well told, will enjoy " My Friend the 

 Chauffeur." 



One of the Problems of the Home 



The Work of Our Hands 



By H. A. Mitchell Keays, author ot "He that 

 Eateth Bread with Me." $1.50 



The story is of a sweet young woman of poor f anvil v brough; 

 up in a strictly orthodox and God-fearing atmosphere who 

 marries the son of the millionaire of her town. He is no more 

 honest or more kind to his employes than he need be; and the 

 drama of the story develops when the young wife uses his 

 money to alleviate the misery of his poor mill workers, ard 

 attempts to make him realize that money is meant to assist 

 people; not to aid in crushing them down. The strength of the 

 story comes from the typical humanity of the characters and 

 the truth and force of the situations. 



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The Home of Our Boyhood 



Back Home 



By Eugene /Wood. 

 Cloth, i2mo. $1.50. 



Illustrated by A. B. Frost. 



It's a book about the way things used to be when you went 

 barefoot with a rag around your stubbed toe. It will make you 

 chuckle all the time; it will make you laugh out loud once in a 

 while, and sometimes it will make a lump come in your throat 

 and the tears come in your eyes — happy tears. 



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A Home of Strange People 



The Pang-Yanger 



By Elma A. Travis, M.D. $1.50. 



The story concerns Abijah Bead and his love for Barbara 

 Hunt, a Southern girl of deeply passionate nature and strong 

 moral courage. A second thread enters into the plot in the 

 shape of a woman who married Abijah secretly when he was 

 young, and deserted him and their boy for a man whom she 

 thought richer, trusting, to escape the consequences, to the fact 

 that all the witnesses to her union with Abijah were dead. 

 Abijah brings the little boy back to the village, that his re- 

 semblance to his mother shall reveal her story and be a witness 

 to her shame. The author has developed the dramatic possi- 

 bilities of this plot admirably; giving, in 

 cidentallv, a delightful picture of the 

 elemental people of his Catskill com- 

 munity, Pang-Yang. 



McClure, Phillips & Co. 



44 East 23rd Street 

 New York 





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The Country on 

 Horseback 



The Horse 

 in America 



By John Gilmer Speed. 'With 

 sixteen illustrations, two in 

 color. Net, $2.30; postpaid, 

 $2.50. 



It gives a brief account of the progeni- 

 tors of the horse, and then takes up every 

 breed for which our country has bei n 

 noted — Kentucky and Denmark saddle 

 horses, Clay Arabians, Morgans, mulas, 

 thoroughbreds, etc. The chapters on 

 " How to Buy a Horse," "The Stable 

 and Its Management," " Riding and 

 Driving," " Training Horses vs. Breaking 

 Them," are full of first-hand knowledge 

 every horse owner will appreciate. Mr. 

 Speed is a practical horse breeder whose 

 expert assistance has frequently been 

 sought by the United States Government, 



The Country on Foot 



Portfolio of Bird 

 Portraits 



By Bruce Horsfall. "With notes by W. 

 E. D. Scott. In twelve colors. In box, 

 net, $4.00. Separate prints 50 cents each. 



Mr. Bruce Horsfall has drawn the p -traits in his 

 portfolio directly from the birds as he has observed 

 ihem at large in Mr. Scott's avian.'. Ihese pictures, 

 therefore, have an excepiional interest and authen- 

 ticity which pictures of birds heretofore made, as a 

 rule from stuffed specimens only, do not possess. 

 The eight plates include those birds with which we 

 are most familiar, such as the robin, meadow lark, 

 the bluejav, the wood-thrush, brown thrasher, star- 

 ling, bobolink and catbird. 



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Outdoor Play 



The Complete Golfer 



By Harry Vardon. 'With fifty photo- 

 graphs of Mr. Vardon playing charac- 

 teristic strokes of the game. Postpaid, 

 $3.67; net, $3.50- 



Mr. Vardon goes into the subject with a thorough- 

 ness that begins with the very position of the hands 

 on the club, and overlooks no fine point in the 

 player's progress, from the hitting of the ball to the 

 strategy of the game. The stance for everv stroke 

 with every club is indicated and illustrated with a 

 photograph and a diagram of foot placements and 

 distances between the ball, head of the club and feet. 



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Indoor Play 



Foster's Complete 

 Bridge 



By R. F. Foster, author of " "Whist Tac- 

 tics," with many diagrams. Net, $2.00 



This is a complete manual on Bridge 

 Whist by America's lea< ing Bridge ex- 

 pert. It will serve as an introduction to 

 the game for the beginner, but it also 

 treats extendedly of the finer points of 

 play for the benefit of the more experi- 

 enced. The author makes his directions 

 for the proper leads very clear by a new 

 and ingenious arrangement of diagrams, 

 through which the playing of sample 

 hands is indicated. 



