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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
March, 1906 
Building a Home 
is a pleasant occupation and there is great satisfaction when every- 
thing is complete. Correct hardware helps make the home com- 
plete. Look out yourself for the hardware and you will be proud 
of your new home. Hardware cost cuts a small figure in the total 
cost. For the dollars spent nothing adds so much to the appearance 
of a dwelling as well selected hardware. You must have hardware 
The beautiful kind— 
Sargent’s Artistic Hardware 
re 
increases the attractiveness of the home without great cost. Sar- 
of some kind. 
gent’s Hardware is well made and gives satisfaction. Sargent’s 
Easy Spring Locks stand the test of everyday use. So don’t spoil 
your well designed house by using poor hardware; use Sargent’s. 
Sargent’s Book of Designs, a copy of which will be sent free upon 
request, will help you make a selection. 
Sargent. @ Company 
156 Leonard Street, New York 
Makers of Artistic Hardware 
and Fine Locks 
“Old Hickory” 
Spindle Back Chair 
$1.75 | 
Guaranteed most serviceable, comfortable, 
attractive chair for Porch and Lawn use ever 
sold at this remarkably low price. Will stand 
all sorts of weather. Solidly constructed of 
genuine white hickory with bark on. Seat 18 
inches long, 16 inches deep ; height 
over all, 40 inches. Price, $1.75, 
Any Wood Floor 
in any condition can 
be benéfited by the use of 
QI English 
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The Wax with a Guarantee 
Beautifies with a rich, subdued lustre which 
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scratches; will not flake in cold or become 
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apply. Comes in one, two, four and eight 
pound cans, 50c. per lb. If you cannot get it 
from your local dealer, write to us. 
If you have never tried Old English Floor Wax and will for- 
ward us the name of your dealer, we will send you A LIBERAL 
SAMPLE FREE, all charges prepaid, Try it at home. 
Every Householder Should Read Our Book 
**Beautifying and Caring for Wood Floors’’ 
It is an authority on the care of floors, woodwork and 
furniture, and will be mailed free with our question blank. 
This filled out will bring you an answer to your particular 
floor problems. We guarantee our finishes to give entire 
satisfaction when used as directed. 
A.S. BOYLE & CO., Dept. 0, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Largest exclusive manufacturers of Floor Wax in the world 
freight prepaid east of Mississippi 
River. 120 other styles of chairs, 
settees, tables, etc., 51.50 up. 
Be sure to get the ‘‘Old 
Hickory ” Furniture and 
see that our trade mark is 
on every piece. If your 
dealer will not supply you, 
remit direct to us. Ask for 
new 48-page illustrated cata- 
logue and our Special Intro- 
ductory Offer—FREE. 
The Old Hickory Chair Co. 
153 Cherry St., Martinsville, Ind. 
“The Original * Old Hickory’ Furniture 
Manufacturers.”* 
Style No. 24 
The Davis & 
a 
WATER THERMOSTAT 
Draft Controller /or 
Hot Water Heaters 
& 
Will save 25 per cent. of your coal bill. 
Will regulate the temperature of your whole 
house. 
Catalogue free upon request. 
Davis & Roesch Temperature Controlling Co., Newark,N.J. 
Simple, Durable, 
Accurate, Inexpensive 
The point of attack is elementary throughout, 
but small as the book is, it is crowded with 
helpful information from cover to cover, and 
undoubtedly awaits a career of fine usefulness. 
Much of the book is concerned with the 
vegetable products of the farm, but a number 
of chapters treat of the farm animals. The 
most important facts of agricultural theory 
are duly set forth and their practical applica- 
tions noted. Farm products and farm animals 
are treated in the same way. ‘The authors 
have not been able to divest themselves of 
of apparently writing down to the age and 
ignorance of their students, but apart from 
this the book appears to be one of unusual 
value, admirably adapted to its particular 
field. 
The Tree Book 
THE TreE Book. A Popular Guide to a 
Knowledge of the Trees of North Amer- 
ica, and Their Uses and Cultivation. By 
Julia Ellen Rogers. Pp. 20+589. Price, 
$4.00, net. New York: Doubleday, 
Page & Co., 1905. 
The difficulty of condensing modern knowl- 
edge of the trees of North America within the 
limits of a single handbook which will give 
all the characteristics necessary to be known 
by any one desiring to familiarize himself with 
trees and to be able to identify them, is well 
exemplified in this book. Intended to enable 
the novice to identify trees, and to become ac- 
quainted with them, it is properly a book to 
be used in the fields and referred to at all 
times. It is, nevertheless, a volume of some 
size, and a book whose physical dimensions 
seems to be likely to diminish its usefulness. But 
it has obviously been found impossible to sum- 
marize tree literature within smaller limits, 
notwithstanding the fact that one or two chap- 
ters, such as those on the “Lumber Camp of 
To-day,” and “Wooden Paper,” seem some- 
what unnecessary. The book is, perhaps, 
obviously written down to the novice and the 
unlearned, but it is exactly these persons who 
most want and need the information it gives, 
and this lapse on the part of the author is 
not uncommon in books of this description. 
The author has undertaken to present in 
concise form all the knowledge that is neces- 
sary for the rapid and accurate identification 
of trees. This is accomplished by means of an 
ample text, in which the descriptions are very 
carefully and plainly stated, and includes such 
supplementary facts concerning the tree, its 
habits, its uses and its characteristics, as are 
necessary to a full acquaintance with it. 
The book is by far the most complete gen- 
eral manual on trees that has yet been pro- 
duced for popular use. There are few elemen- 
tary facts concerning trees that may not be 
found in its pages. It is a book that must 
greatly widen popular appreciation of trees, 
since its subject is presented in a thoroughly 
satisfactory manner and has been particularly 
calculated to meet the needs of the novice in 
tree lore. ‘That these constitute the majority 
of persons, and that their needs have not al- 
ways been so well served as by theauthorof this 
volume, insures it the hearty welcome it very 
thoroughly deserves. 
The publishers have admirably performed 
their part by giving it a handsome dress. The 
sixteen colored plates, while not entirely suc- 
cessful, are well done and are extremely hand- 
some and useful. Nearly three hundred and 
fifty photographs of trees, parts of trees, leaves, 
bark, wood, sections, flowers and fruits are 
included in the black and white plates with 
which the text is numerously supplemented. 
Illustrations as a whole constitute the most 
valuable part of the book, since they include 
