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  AMERICAN 
  HOMES 
  AND 
  GARDENS 
  

  

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  ^American 
  Estates 
  

   and 
  Gardens 
  

  

  By 
  BARR 
  FERREE 
  

  

  Editor 
  of 
  American 
  Homes 
  and 
  Gardens 
  Corresponding 
  Member 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  American 
  Institute 
  of 
  Architects 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  Royal 
  Institute 
  of 
  British 
  Architects 
  

  

  MERICAN 
  ESTATES 
  AND 
  GARDENS 
  is 
  a 
  sumptuously 
  

   illustrated 
  volume 
  in 
  which, 
  for 
  the 
  first 
  time, 
  the 
  subject 
  of 
  the 
  

   more 
  notable 
  great 
  estates, 
  houses, 
  and 
  gardens 
  in 
  America 
  

   receives 
  adequate 
  treatment. 
  It 
  is 
  a 
  volume 
  of 
  350 
  pages, 
  

   enriched 
  with 
  275 
  illustrations, 
  of 
  which 
  eight 
  are 
  in 
  duotone. 
  

   An 
  effort 
  has 
  been 
  made 
  to 
  select 
  as 
  great 
  a 
  variety 
  as 
  possible 
  of 
  the 
  styles 
  

   of 
  architecture 
  which 
  have 
  been 
  introduced 
  into 
  this 
  country 
  as 
  being 
  spe- 
  

   daily 
  adapted 
  to 
  the 
  peculiar 
  conditions 
  of 
  American 
  country 
  life. 
  

   Q 
  Although 
  the 
  exteriors 
  of 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  houses 
  shown 
  in 
  this 
  work 
  may 
  be 
  

   familiar 
  to 
  a 
  certain 
  number 
  of 
  readers, 
  few 
  have 
  had 
  the 
  privilege 
  of 
  a 
  

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  to 
  their 
  interiors, 
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  for 
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  reason, 
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   reproductions 
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  in 
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  follows 
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  gross 
  income 
  will 
  be 
  the 
  

   amount 
  stated. 
  In 
  a 
  later 
  chapter 
  he 
  utters 
  

   a 
  much-needed 
  note 
  of 
  warning 
  against 
  

   counting 
  profits 
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  have 
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  him 
  that 
  

   this 
  may 
  also 
  be 
  the 
  case 
  with 
  vegetables, 
  

   and 
  he 
  is 
  probably 
  unfamiliar 
  with 
  the 
  expe- 
  

   riences 
  of 
  Long 
  Island 
  farmers 
  who 
  from 
  

   farms, 
  within 
  the 
  city 
  limits 
  of 
  New 
  York, 
  

   have 
  taken 
  load 
  after 
  load 
  of 
  perishable 
  crops 
  

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  market, 
  only 
  to 
  get 
  the 
  barest 
  sum 
  for 
  

   them, 
  while 
  many 
  a 
  time 
  they 
  have 
  been 
  de- 
  

   stroyed 
  or 
  thrown 
  away 
  as 
  valueless. 
  

  

  The 
  fact 
  is 
  farming, 
  especially 
  for 
  the 
  new 
  

   and 
  untried 
  man, 
  is 
  beset 
  with 
  countless 
  dif- 
  

   ficulties 
  and 
  is 
  more 
  likely 
  to 
  contain 
  failures 
  

   than 
  successes. 
  The 
  figures 
  of 
  possible 
  in- 
  

   comes 
  accumulated 
  by 
  the 
  statisticians 
  are 
  

   veritable 
  towers 
  of 
  strength 
  and 
  encourage- 
  

   ment, 
  but 
  the 
  reality 
  is 
  often 
  quite 
  the 
  re- 
  

   verse. 
  Mr. 
  Hall 
  is 
  alive 
  to 
  these 
  conditions 
  

   in 
  a 
  limited 
  way, 
  but 
  his 
  book 
  would, 
  of 
  

   course, 
  never 
  have 
  been 
  written 
  had 
  he 
  re- 
  

   garded 
  them 
  as 
  matters 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  considera- 
  

   tion. 
  There 
  is 
  enthusiasm 
  in 
  what 
  he 
  writes, 
  

   and 
  his 
  method 
  is 
  quite 
  distinct 
  from 
  that 
  of 
  

   other 
  writers 
  on 
  this 
  broad 
  subject. 
  It 
  is 
  

   not 
  intended 
  as 
  a 
  guide 
  to 
  agriculture, 
  but 
  

   to 
  arouse 
  interest 
  in 
  it. 
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  will 
  hardly 
  do 
  that 
  

   without 
  leading 
  the 
  reader 
  further 
  a-fleld, 
  

   and 
  it 
  is 
  unfortunately 
  the 
  case 
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  it 
  is 
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  both 
  

   sides 
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  be 
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  too 
  late. 
  

  

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