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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



January, 1907 



SuN-DiALS WITH Pedestals, Complete 



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 are enabled to offer this most attractive feature of the 

 formal garden at a price that places them within the 

 reach of all. 



A special booklet showing a number of designs of 

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 upon request. Ask for Circular "A-26." 



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ROCKFORD, ILL. 



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Comforuble. Well Planned, and Well Built aa can be bad for 

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Book of Bungalows, 1906— a unique and anlstlc book. 



containing designs for one and one and a half story Bungalows In va- 

 rious styles. SI, O&O up. Printed in Sepia tones. Price, by mall, $2.00. 



New Picturesque Cottages— containing Original and 

 Beautiful Desiens for Suburban Homes froji 82.800 to $6,000, 

 Price, by mail. SI. 00. 



Picturesque Summer Cottages, Vol. Ill, New and Re- 

 vised 1906 edition. Old Favorites and New Designs for Stone. Shingle 

 and Rustic Summer Cottaees. Price, bv mail, 81.00. 



For Complete, Clear Drawings and Definite Speci- 

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 My Plans. 



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Start with the largest stock that can be secxired! It takes over twenty years to 



grow such trees and shrubs as we offer. 

 We do the long waiting — thus enabling you to secure trees and shrubs that give an 

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Nurseries, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. Pa. 



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the roosting quarters or winter shelter on a 

 little knoll so the water will drain away from 

 it, damp houses will prove of little trouble, 

 but an application of lime to the earth inside 

 of the house occasionally increases their secur- 

 ity. 



Roosting in trees in summer may be per- 

 missible, but even so it is more satisfactory to 

 induce the poults at an early age to roost in 

 shelters provided for them. This will keep 

 them home, and when winter comes they will 

 run no risk of freezing on their perches some 

 cold night. Give them appropriate shelters 

 and roosts, but do not drive them indoors 

 against their inclination. 



Choice turkeys fed on choice food make 

 choice meat. Spoon-fed turkeys command ex- 

 traordinary prices. Chestnuts, butternuts, 

 acorns, and other fragrant nuts flavor the 

 meat of the turkeys just as surely as the acorns 

 of the Southwest make the most delicious ba- 

 con sent to market. Celery, lettuce, and lus- 

 cious grass are appreciated by turkeys, and 

 when fed such food they fatten on it and pro- 

 duce tender, sweet meat. Add to this suffi- 

 cient grain, sweet milk, and a varied diet of 

 fat worms and bugs which they pick up in 

 their ordinary wanderings, and you have tur- 

 keys fit for the king's table when Thanksgiv- 

 ing or Christmas comes around. 



But as the temptation of Thanksgiving 

 regularly draws one to the turkey-yard, it is 

 well to hold in check the desire to sacrifice the 

 choicest hens of the flock for the table. Pass 

 them over and take the second best. Other- 

 wise the deterioration of the flock causes re- 

 grets that only years can obliterate. Keep the 

 choicest for next spring's mating, and each 

 successive year the quality of the turkeys will 

 improve until the grade becomes standard, not 

 only in looks and appearance but in prac- 

 tical utility. It is the one repression of desires 

 that makes this national feast a true reminder 

 of the qualities of our stern, self-contained 

 Puritan forefathers. 



The Home of Solomon R. Dresser, 

 Bradford, Pa. 

 Congressman Dresser may well feel a nat- 

 ural pride in his beautiful house which is ex- 

 pressed in this illustrated record. It is a 

 handsome souvenir of a handsome home, one 

 built at some cost, furnished in a handsome 

 manner, and supplied with every modem con- 

 venience and luxury. The house was designed 

 by Mr. Louis Kamper of Detroit, and is 

 somewhat modeled after the Michigan build- 

 ing at the Pan-American Exposition. The 

 souvenir volume is issued in handsome dress, 

 and is a memorial that must be heartily wel- 

 comed by Mr. Dresser's many friends. 



Pictorial Practical Rose Growing. By 

 Walter P. Wright. New York: Cassell 

 & Company, Ltd., 1905. i6mo., pp. 152. 

 Price, 75 cents. 

 While there are doubtless very many valu- 

 able books on roses, the author's contribution 

 to the literature of the subject, while one of 

 the latest, is, nevertheless, one of the best of 

 its kind, as far as concise and practical treat- 

 ment of the text is concerned. The various 

 chapters describe the propagation, pruning and 

 general culture of roses, both out of doors and 

 under glass, and the work is well illustrated 

 with nearly a hundred engravings, which will 

 be found very valuable in supplementing the 

 directions given. 



