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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



Dkcembeb, 1910 



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E-F- Benson. 



THE 

 OSBORNES 



BY E. F. BENSON 



Author of "The Fascinating Mrs. Halton," "Sheaves," etc. 



In this romance of a middle -class Eng- 

 lish family which buys its way into high 

 society, Mr. Benson has given us a rare 

 portrayal of human nature, searching, finely 

 drawn and warm with good nature. You 

 will love the Osbornes, mother and father, 



for their whole-souled honesty and high courage in the great crisis of 



their lives. Fixed price, $ 1 .20. (Postage 1 2 cts.) 



THE SECOND 

 CHANCE 



BY MRS. NELLIE L. McCLUNG, 



Author of " Sowing Seeds in Danny." 



Mrs. McClung has written a further account of Pearlie Watson, who figured so largely in " Sowing 

 Seeds in Danny." And Pearlie is the same comical, motherly, unexpected, and altogether delightful 

 little Irish girl that made one's heart grow warm and brought the smiles to one's face every few moments. 

 Her experiences as she grows to young womanhood, and the way in which she makes the numerous 

 Watsons transform that run-down farm, " The Second Chance," are worth your while — and we know 

 if you read this book you will want to pass it on. Frontispiece. Fixed price, $1.20. (Postage 12 cts.) 



Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, New York. 



The Fireless Cook Book 



By MARGARET J. MITCHELL 



This book explains in a simple way how to make and use this in- 

 vention, which has only recently become known, but has already proved 

 itself a real labor-saving, economical implement. 



Including, as it does, 250 recipes, the volume must soon become a 

 necessity to all up-to-date housekeepers. Nineteen pen-and-ink drawings. 



Net $1.25 (postage, 12c) 

 Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, New York 



A Rock Garden in the Street 



HERE and there the rock-bound roadside 

 stands in the way of conventional suburban 

 improvement; sidewalks could be blasted out, but 

 only at a cost entirely unwarranted by the amount 

 of travel. That such a state of things may be 

 turned to good account has been demonstrated in 

 a section of the Dorchester district of Boston 

 that is practically an immense ledge. Even 

 building on these great cliffs of pudding stone 

 would seem impossible, but houses have gone up 

 there and grounds have been beautified, and the 

 beauty of the latter has been made to flow down 

 over the rocks to those thoroughfares where side- 

 walks are out of the question. 



The streets where this is done are short, wind 

 about prettily and suggest drives on a private 

 estate rather than public highways. Each resi- 

 dent cares for the ledge in front of his estate, 

 ornamenting it to his own hking, and the united 



There Is not enough travel on this street to war- 

 rant sidewalks, so the residents have converted the 

 roadside into a continuous rock garden 



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