THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



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BOY SCOUTS 



By the time this paragraph is printed, 

 most people in the United States who are 

 interested in boys will know something about 

 the Boy Scouts. There are already 300,000 

 or 400,000 Boy Scouts in our own country, 

 and several hundred thousand more in other 

 countries; and no movement in recent years 

 has spread so fast, or bids likely to have so 

 great an influence as this Boy Scout organi- 

 zation. 



It is a great satisfaction and pleasure that 

 the Scouts have asked Doubleday, Page & 

 Co. to publish for them the official handbook, 

 which is much more than a handbook, but 

 in many ways is a very remarkable book for 

 boys. There is nothing like it that has been 

 printed before. Here is a list of the chapters 

 which fairly well indicate what the volume 

 covers: 



Chapter 



I. Scoutcraft: 



II. Woodcraft: 



Woodlore, Birdcraft, Shells and Shell 

 Fish, Reptiles, Insects and Butter- 

 flies, Fishes and Angling, Aquarium, 

 Rocks and Pebbles, Flowers, Ferns 

 and Grasses, Mushrooms, Fungi 

 or Toadstools, Common North 

 American Trees, Native Wild Ani- 

 mals. 



III. Campcraft: 



Hiking and Over-Night Camps, 

 Canoeing amd Sailing. 



IV. Tracks, Trailing and Signaling. 

 V. Health and Endurance. 



VI. Chivalry. 



VII. First Aid and Life Saving. 



VIII. Games and Athletic Standards: 



Indoor and Outdoor Games, Ath- 

 letic Standards and Records. 



IX. Patriotism and Citizenship. 



The book contains scores of illustrations, 

 and it is the boy's book par excellence. It 

 may be had from Boy Scouts bookseller, 

 or by mail from the office of the Boy Scouts 

 of America, 200 Fifth Avenue, New York, 



"To business that we love we rise betime 

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



or from Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, 

 N. Y. The price in flexible linen cover is 

 25 cents, and in cloth 50 cents. 



ERNEST THOMPSON SETON'S NEW BOOK 

 " ROLE IN THE WOODS " 



In the last year probably a quarter of a 

 million American boys have joined the Boy 

 Scouts of America; and the tremendous 

 spread of this movement makes especially 

 interesting a new book by the Chief Scout 

 of the organization, Mr. Ernest Thompson 

 Seton. It is called "Rolf in the Woods," 

 and the author's idea has been to show the 

 fundamental necessity for the knowledge 

 of nature, woodcraft, outdoor life in general, 

 and the self-reliant ability to do things and 

 meet emergencies — which are the main ac- 

 tivities of Boy Scouts. In story form, he 

 narrates how the youngster, Rolf, takes to the 

 woods perforce with old Indian Quonab and 

 "Little Dog Skookum" for companions and 

 teachers: and then all the woods lore he 

 has been slowly acquiring becomes a matter 

 of daily existence, often of life and death. 

 When he has grown to be a true woodsman, 

 after a series of most absorbing adventures, 

 Rolf finds a chance to put all his knowledge 

 into use as a daring scout and messenger in 

 the War of 18 12. It's a splendid tale for 

 young folks, but it's also something more; 

 for nobody can read it without seeing that 

 the modern "outdoor" movement is not a 

 fad, but is based on truth and human need 

 and experience. 



READY THREE NEW VOLUMES OF THE 

 GARDEN LIBRARY 



They are Vines, Chrysanthemums, and 

 Garden Planning, they cost $1.10. 



MAGAZINE DATES OF DELIVERY 



We have received from the Second Assis- 

 tant Postmaster General's office a statement 

 that owing to the fact that fast freight trains 

 are to be used in sending our magazines to the 

 subscriber instead of fast mail trains, in the 

 states of Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Tennessee 

 and Wisconsin it will take three days longer 

 to reach the subscriber; in the states of 



Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas 

 four days longer; in the states of Arizona, 

 California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Minne- 

 sota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New 

 Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Da- 

 kota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming, it will 

 take five days longer. 



We shall do our best to get our magazines 

 in the mail as early as possible, and we shall 

 deliver the subscriber's copies to the Post 

 Office not later than we deliver the news- 

 dealers' supply to the American News Com- 

 pany. If your magazine is late, it is beyond 

 us to remedy the matter, as we are doing our 

 utmost to meet the dates suggested by the 

 Post Office, but these changes are so radical 

 that we cannot advance our publication 

 date as much as these figures demand. On 

 one of our magazines it would mean doubling 

 our present printing and binding capacity. 



THE CHILDREN'S LIBRARY OF WORK AND PLAY 



This set of books, about which we have 

 written before in this page, is now complete, 

 and is being shipped to subscribers. 



It is, now that the whole set is rounded up 

 and complete, a better set than we had hoped 

 for: that is, it more nearly fits the purposes 

 for which it was made. 



At this time of year we hope parents who 

 are anxious to have their children interested 

 in something beside play, and take to reading 

 which will lead beyond idle pleasure, will 

 send for the pamphlet that we have ready 

 describing the set. 



Just send a postal asking for " The 

 Children's Library of Work and Play" 

 pamphlet, and address Doubleday, Page & 

 Co., at Garden City, N. Y. 



GARDENERS AND AUTOMOBILES 



We recently took a list of the subscribers 

 to The Garden Magazine in Portland, Me. 

 and compared it with the roll of owners of 

 automobiles in the Maine records of people 

 who had taken out licenses and found that 

 40 per cent, of all the people who subscribe 

 to The Garden Magazine owned a motor car. 

 Doubtless after a year of inspiration and 

 health brought abouf through reading this 

 magazine, the proportion would go up to 80 

 per cent. Every garden means a home. 



