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AMERICAN HOMES AND GA 



RDENS 



July, 1907 



GUNTER'S 



VACATION NUMBER 



E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM'S latest 

 novel, "FOR THE QUEEN," will appear 

 complete in the August issue of Gunter's. 



"MY CANADIAN CONVERSION," 

 an intimate article by SARA HAMILTON 

 BIRCHALL on the Canadian Northwest tells, 

 in facts more interesting than fiction, of this 

 territory's wonderful resources and their roman- 

 tic development. 



There will be a large number of complete 

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 illustrated by many beautiful pictures. 



MR. FYLES' monthly sketches of the 

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himself with that most useful aspect of camp 

 life, the physical side; he leaves to others the 

 treatment of such topics as hunting, fishing, 

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 the more useful — of how to live in the woods, 

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 due regard to health and comfort. It is a 

 book of practical directions and suggestions, 

 very detailed in its treatment, as is quite 

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 Illustrations, both photographs and diagrams, 

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 The camper and the lover of life in the woods 

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The Garden Month by Month. By 

 Mabel Cabot Sedgwick, assisted by Rob- 

 ert Cameron. New York : Frederick A. 

 Stokes Company, 1907. Pp. 18+516. 

 Price, $4.00 net ; postage, 30 cents. 

 This is a remarkable book, summing up al- 

 most every possible floral knowledge required 

 for the garden in an exceedingly able and 

 available manner. The publishers are quite 

 justified in designating it as a library of gar- 

 dening condensed. 



It is concerned with flowers only, and hence 

 garden vegetables are wholly excluded from 

 its scope. The treatment is by month, the 

 flowers being arranged according to the 

 months In which they bloom and then sub- 

 divided according to their color. While this 

 arrangement is, in a measure, arbitrary, it is 

 at least logical, and as its purpose is to enable 

 the gardener to choose his plants in a proper 

 order of succession and arrange his colors ar- 

 tistically, no better scheme could have been 

 followed. The text is presented in tabular 

 form throughout, the first column giving the 

 color of the flower ; the next its English name ; 

 then its botanical name and synonyms ; then a 

 brief description of the plant, with cultural 

 directions wherever needed ; then the height 

 and situation best adapted to its growth ; and, 

 finally, the time of bloom. It is obvious, 

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 Is not only easy of reference, but presents 

 the chief points of information that may 

 be required of any plant in a thoroughly 

 complete way. The colors are indicated in a 

 carefully prepared colored plate, in which 

 sixty-three shades are accurately given, and by 

 which every possible color is listed and de- 

 termined in the text. 



In addition to the chapters dealing with the 

 garden month by month, in which detailed 

 information is given for each month, from 

 March to September inclusive — the great 

 blooming months — there are supplementary' 

 chapters, arranged in the same manner on the 

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 aquatics, bog, garden or marsh plants, plants 

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 those desiring to grow representative collec- 

 tions of certain kinds of plants. A full index 

 enables the readers to locate each flower by 

 name. The illustrations, which are exclusive- 

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 hundred. Both the amateur and practical 

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 ries and collections of books on gardens. 



