January, 1912 
SWEET PEA 
QUARTET 
Plant Them This Year 
LANT these wonderful Peas that won for Mrs. 
Fraser the thousand pound sterling prize at the 
great London contest held last July at the 
Crystal Palace. 
Won against the keenest kind of competition of 
over 10,000 exhibitors. By a special arrangement. 
we have secured a stock of these prize winning 
varieties, which are :— 
Paradise Carmen—clear, lovely carmine, waved. 
Constance Oliver—delicate pink suffused with 
cream, waved. 
ur Unwin—rose shaded with cream, waved. 
Tom Bolton—dark maroon, waved, 
As you see them illustrated here. they are much re- 
ducedin size. Why don’t you stir up some triendly 
competition with your neighbors this year with 
this quartet? 
Here is our offer, which is backed up by Bodding- 
ton’s Seal of Quality—and you know what that 
Buy your seeds now and plants them early 
means. 
—the earlier, the better, 
1 packet of the above 4 prize winners for____. $0.35 
3 collections of 12 packets in all for. PERS HOO! 
Post paid with each order we will send you 
Boddington’s 1912 Garden Guide 
Contains a complete description of the sweet pea 
competition 
Ae Guide is a decided departure from the usual 
ed ‘Seed Catalog.” The cultural directions are 
erties by successful gardeners who have 
of flowers i = them—gardners who know. 
These “tell you how” directions are especially 
good —no elaborate, discouraging directions — 
just common sense advice, like your neighbors 
tell you over the back fence. 
f you want this Guide and not the Sweet Peas 
Quartet we will gladly sent it to you, free, just the 
same. 
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: BODDINGTONS SEEDS 
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_ New York 
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\WESTERHAM WITH ITs SURROUNDINGS. A 
Handbook to Wolfe-Land. By Gibson 
Thompson. New York: Frederick 
Warne & Company. 112 pages; illus- 
trated. 
The quiet little Kentish village of Wester- 
ham is the birthplace of General Wolfe. 
Although so near London, the surrounding 
district is intersected by rambling paths that 
give glimpses of some enchanting views. 
The village itself is little altered since the 
days of Wolfe. The philology of the name 
carries us back ten centuries. In the Domes- 
day Book of William the Conqueror it ap- 
pears as “Oistreham.” The handbook—one 
of the famous “Homeland” series—while 
serving as a brief history and general guide 
to the district, lays much stress upon Wolfe’s 
connection with Westerham, sketches his 
boyhood and manhood, and presents pictures 
of the vicarage in which he was born and 
of the buildings and byway: so familiar 
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CoNCRETE FLoors AND SIDEWALKS. By A. 
A Houghton. New York: The Norman 
W. Henley Publishing Company. 63 pp.; 
illustrated. Price, 50 cents. 
This is No. 2 of the series of monographs 
on kindred subjects, and proceeds from the 
simplest forms of floors and sidewalks to 
the most ornamental tile effects. There are 
timely warnings as to the reason for com- 
mon defects in the work. It is the author’s 
claim that the greatest measure of success 
is usually secured by the simplest and most 
inexpensive methods, and his best results 
are obtained by the use of easily-made 
molds of strap-iron. 
Macician’s Tricks. How They Are Done. 
By Henry Hatton and Adrian Plate. 
New York: The Century Company, 
1910. 8vo; 344 pp. Price, $1.60 net. 
Most books of this kind consist of a col- 
lection of time-worn illusions whose work- 
ings have been exposed over and over again. 
While the old, basic principles are of neces- 
sity to be found in this treatise, there are 
also many things that will be new, at least 
in their combinations and mode of pre- 
sentation, to most of our amateur con- 
jurers. Card, coin and egg tricks are dealt 
with at some length, and there are sections 
on spiritualistic ties, mind reading and the 
more elaborate stage illusions. Formulas 
for making flash paper, conjurer’s wax, 
and other preparations are appended. The 
illustration is profuse, the description com- 
mendably clear. 
THE Joy oF GarpDENS, by Lena May 
McCauley. Chicago and New York. 
Rand, McNally & Company. 1911. 
Cloth, 8vo. Illustrated, 246 pages. 
Price, $1.75 net. 
The gardens enchanced by garden archi- 
tecture are beautifying the countryside, but 
the most joyful gardens are the little planta- 
tions of flowers about homes everywhere 
snuggling away perhaps beyond some privet 
hedge. The writer has wisely chosen for 
illustrations examples of the smaller garden, 
and throughout the pages one finds much 
that breathes of the spirit of true garden- 
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