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^American 

 Estates ssg Gardens 



4to. 11 x 13/2 inches. Illuminated Cover and 

 275 Illustrations. 306 Pages. Price, $10.00 



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 



A SUMPTUOUS BOOK dealing with some of the most stately 

 ^"^ houses and charming gardens in America. The illustrations 

 are in nearly all cases made from original photographs, and are 

 beautifully printed on double coated paper. Attractively bound. 

 The book will prove one of the most interesting books of the 

 year, and will fill the wants of those who desire to purchase a 

 luxurious book on our American Homes. 



c7Viunn C& Company 



Publishers of "SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN" 



No. 361 Broadway :: New York 



best adapted tor the several kinds of carvings 

 is given, also a short treatise on proper 

 methods of design for carved work, showing 

 how to harmonize and properly balance orna- 

 mental design for carved work. The book 

 contains over two hundred illustrations, with 

 a number of full page plates, on which are de- 

 signs made for actual working purposes. Illus- 

 trations are also given of tools, showing shapes 

 and sizes, and manner of handling them. 



The book is a treatise on wood carving, and 

 is not concerned with the manufacture of fur- 

 niture, nor with practical applications of 

 carved surfaces. The author's purpose is to 

 show how a carved surface may be produced 

 or a piece of carving in relief. This is an im- 

 portant subject in itself, and quite sufficient to 

 form the theme of a single volume. This 

 book is largely made up of articles contributed 

 by its author to sundry technical journals, but 

 entirely rewritten and newly arranged. The 

 descriptions of the tools and methods are con- 

 cisely given, and the book will be found of 

 peculiar value to the wood worker. 



The Scented Garden 



The Book of the Scented Garden. By 

 F. W. Burbridge. London and New 

 York: John Lane, 1905. Pp. 16-96. 



This little book, which forms one of the 

 Handbooks of Practical Gardening brought 

 out by Mr. Lane, deals with a novel and 

 interesting subject. The important part taken 

 by flower odors in their relation to insects has 

 long been the subject of scientific investigation 

 and research, but Mr. Burbridge touches on 

 this aspect of the question only in a slight de- 

 gree. His theme is the much more subtle and 

 delightful one of growing and arranging 

 scented flowers as a source of pure joy and de- 

 light, and he develops this interesting argu- 

 ment in a thoroughly interesting and fascinat- 

 ing manner. 



Mr. Burbridge argues eloquently for an 

 inclosed garden and a garden house. His 

 inclosed garden is something quite different 

 from a garden surrounded with a fence or 

 wall, but a sort of " holy of holies," being at 

 one and the same time a wind-sheltered sun- 

 trap and a site for a garden house sacred, as 

 it were, for one's own children and to our 

 most intimate friends. This he designs to be 

 a garden of sweet-scented plants and flowers, 

 a " garden of spices." The idea is a beautiful 

 one. The planting of flowers and plants for 

 scenic effect, for masses of bloom and foliage, 

 is an art already brought to a high degree of 

 perfection and development; but the present 

 author goes further, and points out, with 

 quite ample illustration and with keen and 

 happy suggestion, the value of growing plants 

 for their perfumes, and the pleasure that may 

 be obtained from a garden devised for this 

 especial purpose. 



Yet a list, he adds, however complete, of 

 fragrant flowers and leaves, would not help 

 much in the real art of making a sweet-scented 

 garden. It must be an evolution or real 

 growth, an individual development, and not 

 a mere suggestion or copy of a garden else- 

 where. The point is a valuable one, and is 

 quite as helpful in application to a garden 

 arranged in the usual manner as to one espe- 

 cially planted for his scented odors. 



The book includes, among much other in- 

 teresting matter, a brief chapter on the spice 

 islands of Europe, receipts for potpourri, an 

 ABC list of perfumes, essential oils, etc, 

 and the plants which afford them, together 

 with helpful bibliographies on the general sub- 

 ject of scented plants. The list of perfumes is 

 exceedingly full and very complete. The book 

 is of real value and is extraordinarily sug- 

 gestive. 



