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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



November, 1905 



pETERS 



Chocolate 



THE ORIGINAL 



Swiss Milk 



Irresistibly Delicious 



Cool, Autumn days spent out of doors bring "that 

 hungry feeling" which nothing will satisfy but PETER'S. 



Men like it because it makes a convenient and wholesome lunch. 

 Women — because it is so delicious and dainty. 

 Children — because it is the only sweet of which mother says, "eat 

 all you want; it is as wholesome as bread and butter." avoid imitations 



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If so, you will need Locks and Hardware Trimmings and cannot fail to be interested in the 

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 as artistic hardware. The cost of the besi is but a small item, and the difference in price between 

 door hardware and Sargen t's Artistic Hardware 



is but trifling. Personal attention to the selection of hardware for your home will be to you 

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activity of the town, the quiet of country life 

 threatens to pall upon him and to render his 

 second state much worse than his first. Mr. 

 Powell's remedy, and a most effective one it 

 is, is country activity and country interest. One 

 must know the soil and love it ; one must work 

 upon it and make things to grow on it; one 

 must, if one can, derive an income from it and 

 make it " pay." And there is no more absorb- 

 ingly difficult enterprise than the latter, as 

 every one who has tried it is aware. 



Hence he begins his book with the sentence 

 Every landowner should be a fruit grower." 

 His book is an elaboration of this idea. It 

 does not pretend to be an exhaustive treatise 

 on orchard fruits and fruit gardens, but it does 

 aim to be a thoroughly reliable book for those 

 who are establishing their homes on the im- 

 proved basis of intensive culture and especi- 

 ally to assist those who are escaping from the 

 confinements of city life to the freedom and 

 luxuries of suburban homes. These are ex- 

 cellent purposes, and as the author is able to 

 draw on an extended personal experience, as 

 he represents and illustrates in his own person 

 the very class of people his book is intended to 

 help , and as it is based on wide, practical 

 knowledge, it is a book of great value, exactly 

 the kind of a book the people for whom it is 

 intended will want to have. And it is a book 

 they will need and which they will prize most 

 highly. 



It is divided naturally into three parts. 

 The first treats of the orchard, and includes 

 separate chapters on the various fruit trees, 

 on grapes, on figs, dates and olives, on tropical 

 fruits, undeveloped fruits and on nuts and nut 

 trees. Mr. Powell does not undertake to 

 describe and name every sort of fruit under 

 these many heads, but he notes a very great 

 variety of each, describes them briefly but con- 

 cisely, and tells what are the best sorts to plant. 

 He tells how these trees may be grown, what 

 soil they prefer, and notes their habits with 

 great minuteness. 



The second portion is devoted to the fruit 

 garden. Here he takes up the small fruits in 

 much the same general way that the larger 

 varieties are treated, and gives the same useful 

 practical information concerning them. He 

 is careful to warn the fruit grower, however, 

 of the great amount of care and attention that 

 will be required in this department. But ad- 

 mitting such sacrifices will be made as are re- 

 quired, he writes enthusiastically on this im- 

 portant part of the home garden, and his pages 

 are laden with helpful valuable suggestions. 



The final portion is concerned with cultural 

 directions. It treats of many important sub- 

 jects, including wind breaks, drainage and irri- 

 gation, pruning, mulching fertilizing and cover 

 crops, spraying, bees, birds, fowls and animals 

 in their relation to the orchard and fruit 

 garden, harvesting and marketing, and a final 

 chapter on plant breeding. The illustrations 

 include views of trees, fruits and general 

 views. It is a book of sterling value and of 

 real importance and help to every orchard 

 owner and possessor of a fruit garden. 



The Amateur Rose Gardener 



The Amateur Gardener's Rose Book. 

 By the late Julius Hoffmann. Translated 

 by John Weathers. New York: Long- 

 mans, Green & Co. 1905. Pp. 16-f 155- 



Dr. Hoffmann's book represents the results 

 of a lifetime given to the cultivation of the rose. 

 Written by a German gardener for German 

 use, it has been translated by an Englishman 

 and offered for the guidance of rose growers 

 in the British Isles. Mr. Weathers has not, 

 however, made any alterations or changes in 



