AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
Evergreens for 
August and 
i ‘Rlantin 
F YOU have just built or bought a new 
residence with treeless grounds about it, 
don’t think you have to wait till Spring to 
plant the evergreens you will need. Do it 
in August and September— it’s the ideal 
time. All the Fall and Winter they will be 
beautifying the place. 
Those big twenty-five year old pines in 
the picture, were moved here from our 
nursery. 
In October we can move big maples in from 
the vicinity or send them direct from our nur- 
sery. Now isthe time to plan for all this work. 
Come to our nursery; see our trees and let 
us talk your problem over. 
If you can’t come, send for our catalogs, 
you will find them a very ready help in order- 
ing by mail. 
Tanne Hicks & Son 
Westbury, Long Island 
You Can Pick Out 
the houses that have been stained with 
Cabot’s Creosote Stains 
The colors are so soft and rich and durable that all other 
exterior stains look cheap and tawdry in comparison. 
hey go farther, last longer, preserve the wood better, 
and are infinitely more artistic. e genuine creosote 
wood preserving stains. Every gallon guaranteed. on't 
use stains that smell of kerosene, benzine .or other worth- 
less and inflammable cheapeners. 
You can get Cabol’s Stains all over the country 
Send for free samples of stained wood 
SAMUEL CABOT, Inc., Mfg. Chemists 
131 Milk Street Boston, Mass. 
FROZEN DOG RANCH-HOUSE 
Foot of Seven Devils Range, between Freezeout and 
Squaw Butte, on the Payette River 
Stained with Cabot’s Stains 
Col. W/m. C. Hunter, Designer and Owner 
ee 
THY) a 
Madéecn Pliasbins 
Illustrated 
By R.M:. STARBUCK 
400 (10% x7% ) Paces 
55 FuLL PAGEs OF 
ENGRAVINGS 
PRICE, $4.00 
q A comprehensive 
and up-to-date work 
illustrating and de- 
scribing the Drain- 
age and Ventilation 
of Dwellings, Apart- 
ments and Public 
Buildings, etc. The 
very latest and most 
approved methods in 
all branches of 
Sanitary Installation 
are given. 
@ Many of the subjects treated in the text and 
illustrated follow in the next column. 
MUNN & CO,, Inc., Publishers 
361 Broadway New York City 
SOME OF THE SUBJECTS TREATED 
Connections, sizes and all working data for Plumb- 
ing Fixtures and Groups of | ixtures 
Traps — Venting 
Connecting and Supporting of Soil Pipe 
House Trap and Fresh-Air Inlet. 
Floor and Yard Drains, etc. 
Rain Leaders 
Sub-soil Drainage 
Floor Connections 
Roof Connections 
Local Venting 
Bath Room Connections [ete. 
Automatic Flushing for Factories, School Houses, 
Use of Flushing Valves 
Modern Fixtures for Public Toilet Rooms 
Durham System 
Plumbing Construction without use of Lead 
Automatic Sewage Lift—Sump Tank 
Disposal of Sewage of Underground J}loors of 
High Buildings 
Country Plumbing 
Cesspools 
The Eiectrolysis of Underground Pipes 
Septic Tanks and Sewage Siphons 
Pneumatic Water Supply, Rams, etc. 
Examples of Poor P actice 
Roughing—Testing 
Continuous Venting for all classes of Work 
Circuit and Loop Venting 
Use of Special Waste and Vent Fittings 
Cellar Work 
House Drain—House Sewer—Sewer Connections 
Plumbing for Cottage House 
Plumbing for Residence 
Plumbing for Two-Flat Hcuse 
Plumbing for Apartment Houses 
Plumbing for Office Building 
Plumbing for Public Toilet Rooms 
Plumbing for Bath Establishment 
Plumbing for Engine Houses 
Plumbing for Stables 
Plumbing for Factories 
Plumbing for School Houses, etc. [by Electricity 
Thawing of Underground Mains and Service Pipes 
July, 1912 
Tue IMporTANT TIMBER TREES OF THE 
Unitep States. By Simon B. Elliott. 
Boston. Houghton-Mifflin Company. 
1912. Cloth. 8vo. Illustrated. 382 
pages. Price, $2.50 net. 
This volume is an authoritative and prac- 
tical handbook of everyday forestry for the 
use of farmers and land-owners, as well as 
of foresters, students of forestry, and lum- 
bermen. The author, who is a member of 
the Forestry Reservation Commission. of 
Pennsylvania, and has been a life-long stu- 
dent of the subject, has made a thorough 
study of forestry problems in both this 
country and Europe, but the book is free 
from technicality and confusing detail, and 
one to be recommended. It is helpfully ar- 
ranged, clearly written, and fully illustrated 
from photographs in such a way as to make 
the pictures reinforce as well as illustrate 
the text. It is a sound and excellent book, 
which will meet a definite and large de- 
mand, 
EverBLooMING Roses.. By Georgia Tor- 
rey Drennan, New York: Duffield & 
Co., 1912. Illustrated, 250 pages. $1.50 
net. 
This is one of the most readable of 
American books on the subject of Roses 
that the garden beginner could have, con- 
taining excellent cultural directions and a 
dependable list of varieties. 
New 
LauGHTER. By Henri _ Bergson, 
Cloth, 
York: The Macmillan Co., 1912. 
8vo.; 200 pages. Price, $1.25 net. 
In this essay on the meaning of the comic 
by M. Henri Bergson, one of the most bril- 
liant members of the Institute of France, 
the author has wisely confined himself to 
exposing and illustrating his novel theory 
of the comic without entering into a de- 
tailed discussion of other explanations al- 
ready in the field. He none the less indi- 
cates in discussing the comic in general, the 
comic element in forms and movements, 
expansive force of the comic, the comic 
element in situations and in words and the 
comic in character, why the principal theo- 
ries, to which they have given rise appear 
to him inadequate. To quote only a few 
one may mention those based on contrast, 
exaggeration, and degradation. 
EuRoPEAN BEGINNINGS OF AMERICAN HIs- 
tory. By Alice M. Atkinson. Boston: 
Ginn & Company. Cloth. 12mo._ Illus- 
trated. 398 pages. Price, $1.00. 
This is an excellent introduction to the 
study of United States history. The writer 
has followed in its essentials the program 
of the Committee of Eight, appointed by 
the American Historical Association in 
1905 to consider a course of study in his- 
tory for elementary schools. In the pres- 
ent volume England has been made the con- 
necting link between America and those 
European countries that have played a part 
in the world from which our country was 
peopled. Significant periods and move- 
ments have been illustrated as far as pos- 
sible through England. Primitive man, 
Rome and Greece, the Northmen, the 
Church, and the Crusades enter in this way, 
as well as medizeval life in town and coun- 
try. Stories of the age of exploration and 
discovery also form a part of the tale. The 
book ends with the death of Queen Eliza- 
beth and the movement toward the coloni- 
zation of America. The aim throughout 
has been to tell vividly, simply, and fully 
about a few great persons and events; to 
reduce the number of unimportant and un- 
related historical events; to maintain strict 
historical accuracy; and tO bring the past 
into relation with the present at as many . 
points as possible. 
