MAR 25 19Q5 



SCIENCE 



New Series. 

 Vol. XXI. No. 53 





v-^Friday, March 24, 1905. 



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Valuable help in planning your out-door work 



Barbara's The Garden of a Commuter's Wife 



RECORDED BY THE GARDENER. Coth, $1.50 



On its publication the C"mmeTcial Adi ertis r said : 

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Mrs. Alfred Ely's Another Hardy Garden Book 



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By the Same Author A Woman's Hardy Garden 



Fully illustrated from photographs. Sixth Edition. Cloth, 12ino, giU tops, -^1 75 net [postage 13c.) 

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The Practical Garden Book 



Containing the Simplest Directions for the Growing of the Commonest 

 Things about the House and Garden. 



By C. E. HUNN, Gardener to the Horticultural Department of Cornell University, 

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Garden Making Suggestions for the Utilizing of Home Grounds. 



By L. H. BAILEY, aided by L. R. TAFT, F. A. WAUGH. and ERNEST WALKER. 



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