December, 1906 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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Lawns and How to Make Them. To- 

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 1906. i6mo, pp. 174. Price, $1.10 net, 



This is a book that deals with the digging 

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The New Agriculture. By T. Byard Col- 

 lins. New York: Munn & Co. Pp. 374. 

 Price, $2.00. 



Mr. Collins has produced a book that unites, 

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 tainment, instruction and novelty. That there 

 have been great changes in agricultural meth- 

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The latter point touches on what is by no 

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Mr. Collins has divided his book into ten 

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 The whole field of the latest forms of agri- 



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