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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1912 



"To business that we love we rise hetime 

 And go to t wiih delight." — Aiitcy and Cleopatra 



VISITORS 



This is the first spring at Garden City 

 that we have felt at all "settled down" 

 and we should like to have subscribers, 

 advertisers, book-buyers and friends gen- 

 erally come and look us over. The gar- 

 dens are all abloom, the machinery is 

 buzzing and it is a good time to visit the 

 Country Life Press at Garden City. Our 

 station is just beyond the regular station 

 at Garden City — it is called Country Life, 

 and it takes about forty minutes from 

 New York by train or motor car. 



A NEW WILLIAMSON BOOK 



This year it is not a motor story, but 

 a careful and accurate picture of Monte 

 Carlo, one of the most curious and interest- 

 ing places in the world with the strangest 

 collection of people foregathered from all 

 parts of the globe; some of them amusing, 

 some of them tragic, but all alive and 

 absorbing. 



Mr. and Mrs. Williamson know Monte 

 Carlo as few visitors know it. They have 

 built a house near by on the Riviera and 

 in "The Guests of Hercules" they have 

 depicted the life in a story as delightful 

 and charming as their novels always are. 



"FRECKLES" ON THE STAGE 



After some months of preparation, 

 "Freckles" has gone on the stage, and 

 several companies are performing it; in 

 due time it will be perfected and come to 

 the larger cities. Meantime, the book is 

 selling larger this year than last, although 

 in 191 1 it sold over 150,000, and as it was 

 born in 1905 it has had a remarkable 

 record for any book. 



A first edition of 100,000 copies of a 

 50 cents edition of "The Girl of the Lim- 

 berlost" has just come from the press; 

 and Mrs. Porter's book published last 

 August, "The Harvester," has been for 

 the last three months the best selling book 

 in America. Over 200,000 have been 



printed and it is still "going strong." If 

 you have not read these books you have a 

 pleasure before you, which any bookseller 

 can help you to realize. 



Scores of letters come to the author and 

 publisher from readers of "The Harvester." 

 Last month we printed one from a man 

 of affairs. Here is an extract from a 

 lady who by her own confession is 

 not an experienced letter writer, but she 

 has the poetic instinct and makes clear her 

 ideas : 



" I wish I could express in better language 

 what I think, but I have not been educate 

 in American School. Am Swiss by birth, 

 only learn English from my children going 

 to school and have pick't up some in 

 traveling around. So you must look 

 over bad spelling and worse language. 



"I do love the woods, the hills and all 

 the flowers that our God created, but I 

 have never read in fiction anything that 

 describe those things as you have done. 

 You cannot know how much good you 

 have done us. My husband is a Scot- 

 man and been brought up on the border 

 of Switzerland in to Italy among the Hills 

 of Saint Bernard and a lot of the Flowers 

 and Herbs you mention grow where he 

 came from. How I wish I could tell you 

 all I have in my heart, all you have stirred 

 up that I supposed to be sleeping. And 

 the Harvester, He is sublime. A Man 

 and Woman. 



TWO NEW VOLUMES OF THE NATURE 

 LIBRARY 



Alter more than a dozen years we 

 believe that we have now completed the 

 Nature Library. In all there are 17 

 volumes, thousands of illustrations, hun- 

 dreds of color plates and the most expert 

 and effective authors chosen for each 

 volume. 



The two new books are: 'The Spider 

 Book," by Prof. J. H. Comstock, a most 

 remarkable book, the result of years of 



labor and the last word on the subject, and 

 " The Grass Book," by Mary Evans Fran- 

 cis, an equally full and adequate work and 

 all that one would expect of the latest 

 volume in the Nature Library. 



If you are interested in these books the 

 price of which is $4 each, order them from 

 your bookseller or send to us. Sent on 

 approval — pay if you approve and 

 return if you do not. 



Particulars of the Nature Library sent 

 on request. 



ABOUT THAT FARM 



The Garden Magazine's big brother maga- 

 zine, The World's Work, has been devoting 

 time and study and energy to finding out 

 about people who want to break loose from 

 city life and to own a farm. It has had 

 some remarkable experiences discovering 

 some thousands of people who want 

 farms and finding farms who want 

 owners. If you are thinking on this sub- 

 ject, send for a sample copy of The World's 

 Work (Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden 

 City, L. I.) and read a single number in 

 which these subjects are discussed, or 

 better yet, send $3 for a year's sub- 

 scription. 



This Forward-to-the-Land Movement 

 is the great economic and social fact of 

 our decade — the new era in farming, the 

 new kind of man on the soil, with new 

 methods and new tools. Small wonder 

 the price of farm land doubled the last 

 ten years and keeps rising. The World's 

 Work's peculiar service in the movement 

 is this: 



(1) It finds men who want land. 



(2) It directs them where and how to 

 find the kind of land they want. 



This may sound easy and commonplace; 

 but, if you stop to think of it, you will 

 realize that thousands of communities 

 are seeking such men and find it a very 

 difficult task. Perhaps this magazine can 

 help them. 



