AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
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Like a yard with shade 
treesandshrubbery, cool, 
seclusive and inviting, is 
the porch screened from 
the blazing sun with 
Burlington 
Venetian Blinds 
You can easily fit your _porch 
with Burlington Venetian Blinds, 
and vou can readily adjust the 
blinds at an angle that will allow 
free circulation and yet keep out 
the hot sun. 
Write for FREE, 
Illustrated Booklet 
This booklet will show you that 
your porch can be that whi 
it ought to be—your summer 
living room. 
Burlington Venetian Blind Co. 
339 Lake St., Burlington, Vt. 
A collection of designs showing perspectives in that ever beautiful style 
with floor plans arranged to meet the requirements of modern days. 
Contains designs -anging in cost from $5.000 to $30,000. Price $2.00 by 
express prepaid. Also “STUCCO HOUSES” with new designs 
for 1912. Itshows designs costing from §9,000 to $35,000. Price $5.00 
express prepaid. 
E. S. CHILD, ARCHITECT 
Room 1020 29 Broadway New York City 
5-Passenger Touring Car—110-inch Wheelbase 
Standard Model - - $850 
Model EE - - $900 
R-C-H-Corporation, Detroit, Mich. 
See it at local branch in all large cities 
SILENT WAVERLEY LIMOUSINE-FIVE 
Mia — for five eae eel sua for the driver. 
mient and luxurious to 
upkeep cost. Beautiful itcat ie dewiall onde a ike 
THE WAVERLEY COMPANY 
Factory and Home Office: 212 South East Street Indianapolis, Ind. 
Most con- 
e gas cars 
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Are You Interested In 
pleasant, permanent and profitable agency 
work?! We offer a position as exclusive dis- 
tributing salesman either all or spare time 
for the Automatie Combination Tool, a Fence) 
Bullders Device,Post Puller, Lifting and Pul- 
ing Jack, Wire Stretcher,Wrench, etc. Used 
by Contractors,Teamsters,Farmers,Factories 
ALL 
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CYLINDERS, ETC. 
Hay Unloading Tools 
Barn Door Hangers 
Write for Circulars and Prices 
F.E. MYERS & BRO., Ashland, O. 
Ashland Pump and Hay Tool Works 
Landscape Gardening 
Everyone interested in suburban and 
country life should know about the 
home study courses in Horticulture, 
Floriculture, Landscape Gardening, etc., 
which we offer under Prof. Craig and others 
of the Department of Horticulture of Cornell 
University, 
Prof. aes 250- page Catalogue Free Write to-day 
THE HOME CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL 
Dept. A. H. Springfield, Mass. 
| Ui NEW BOOKS & 
RuGs OF THE Orient. By C. R. Clifford. 
New York: Clifford & Lawton, 1911. 
Folio, 109 pages; illustrated. Price, $3. 
The many people who take delight in 
Eastern rugs will welcome this folio, which 
is compliant and informing both to artistic 
and commercial demands. Seven rules of 
identification are given, covering design, 
coloring and technique, so that the pur- 
chaser who masters them may feel reason- 
ably sure of the section from which the rug 
comes. There is a chronological history 
of the Orient, which furnishes a key to 
the overlapping of tribes and tribal charac- 
teristics as manifested in handicraft. <A 
vocabulary of terms includes the rug dis- 
tricts and the nomenclature of manufac- 
ture. The characteristics of weaves are re- 
duced to a table, which greatly facilitates 
identification. The use of rugs according 
to periods of history is another enlightening 
section. The most striking feature of such 
a folio as this should be, and is, the re- 
production of various types of rugs. There 
are large plates of mellow tone and great 
beauty, interspersed with lesser illustrations 
and much clear descriptive matter. There 
are no reproductions in color, but aside 
from this the work is all that could be ex- 
pected, and exhibits the greatest care in 
arrangement, accuracy in information, and 
taste in selection. 
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INEXPENSIVE Homes oF INDIVIDUALITY. 
New and enlarged edition. Introduction 
by Frank Miles Day. Chapter on Costs, 
by Aymar Embury, II. New York: Mc- 
Bride, Nast & Co., 1912. Cloth; 16mo. ; 
illustrated; 80 pages. Price, 75 cents net. 
This is a collection of half-tone illustra- 
tions and plan diagrams of twenty Ameri- 
can hornes, nearly all of which have ap- 
peared before in one of the periodicals is- 
sued by its publishers. Better paper and 
presswork might have been used to advan- 
tage and the book is hardly to be considered 
as an important addition to the literature 
of American domestic architecture. 
PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF POULTRY 
CuLture. By John H. Robinson. Bos- 
ton: Ginn and Company. Cloth, 8vo. 
Illustrated. 611 pages. Price, $3.00. 
The method of treatment adopted in this 
book is the simple, scientific method,—that 
of presenting essential facts in logical order, 
a method that enables one to have a more 
comprehensive view of the subject as a 
whole than could be obtained otherwise. It 
is doubtful if a better volume on poultry 
culture for the homemaker is available and 
any one interested in the subject cannot fail 
to find it of great service. 
As THE Twic Is Benr. By Susan Chenery. 
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company. 
Cloth, 8vo. 164 pages. Price, $1.00 
net. 
“As the Twig is Bent” strongly appeals 
to the modern mother—full of delightful 
surprises and useful lessons that may be 
applied in the school as well as the home, 
dealing with truth, honor, obedience, unself- 
ishness, etc. One has access to interesting 
bits of conversation between two sisters, one 
a school-teacher, the other a mother of two 
bright, vivacious children, Frank and Mar- 
gery. The method used by this mother is 
deftly related by the authoress. 
At Moderate Cost 
Here is a syetem that will deliver fresh running 
water all day at the mere cost of a gallon of 
gasoline. 
@ DOUGLAS @ 
PNEUTANK SYSTEM 
It’s the 
It consists of an air-tight steel tank, a gas, 
gasoline or electric motor and a very efhcient 
pump. Can be located in the basement or out- 
of-doors and take up very little room. Pneu- 
tank Systems are efficient in operation, abso- 
lutely reliable, and up to the Douglas standard 
of excellence. Eighty years of exclusive pump- 
making experience are behind them. 
We will replace any part found defective 
within five years of installation. Ourengineers 
are’at all times ready to aid you in solving your 
water-supply problem. Write tothem. They 
can give you expert advice. 
Douglas outfits can also be used for spraying, 
watering the grounds, fire protection, etc. 
Ask for catalog and full information. 
W. & B. DOUGLAS 
180 William Street Middletown, Conn. 
Manufacturers of spray pumps, deep well pumps, etc. 
This’ Fine Bungalow 
was built ae rane GI N SE N G 
The easiest way I know of for 
making big money on little cap- 
ital and spare time only. You 
can raise it in your garden or 
back yard at the rate of 5,000 
Ibs. to the acre. Worth $6a lb. 
now. Write to-day for my easy, 
=. natural method. I’1] teach you free 
and buy every pound you raise. 
T. H. SUTTON, 606 Sherwood Ave. 
Louisville, Ky. 
SHEEP MANURE 
Dried and pulverized. No waste and no 
weeds. Best fertilizer for lawns—gardens— 
trees—shrubs—vegetables and fruit. 
Large barrel, freight prepaid 
4 0 East of Missouri River—Cash 
0 with order. Write for in- 
teresting booklet and quantity prices. 
THE PULVERIZED MANURE CO. 
21 Union Stock Yards Chicago, Ill. 
BARREL EQUALS 
2 WaGon LOADS 
STABLE: ; 
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— Karr’s Oriental Poppies — 
Next month (August) is the time to transplant these 
glorious bloomers. A score and more of the finest sorts 
are grown at Wyomissing Nurseries. I will send six 
handsome varieties for $1. My book, “‘Hardy Plants,” 
tells about Poppies, Peonies, and other plants for 
planting. I will send a copy if you expect to purchase. 
BERTRAND H. FARR, Wyomissing Nurseries 
’ 643E Penn St., Reading, Pa. 
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The BEAUTY OF A CEMENT HOME 
may now b _ enhanced by 
waterproof finish in beautiful soft tones of 
White, Buff, Green, Gray, etce., overcoming 
all objections to the severe plainness and 
cold look of Cement. a 
For old houses as well as new. 
Send 10c for book of valuable information. * 
THE OHIO VARNISH CO., 8604 Kinsman nd 
FRANCIS HOWARD 
5 W. 28th St., N.Y.C. 
Benches, Pedestals, 
Fonts, Vases, Busts, 
Garden Experts. Send 15c. for Booklet 
See Sweet's Catalogue for 1912, Pages 1598 and 1599 
