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HOME AND FLOWERS 



Books Received 



"Landscape Gardening." By F. A. Waugh. 

 This is an unpretentious book, but it is a very 

 practical one, and one that the amateur will 

 find extremely useful in many ways. It "tells 

 how to do things," and this is precisely what 

 those who have to develop their own grounds 

 Avant to know. Its greatest value is in its com- 

 mon sense suggestions, and its clear, practical 

 advice, which a child could readily understand. 

 O. Judd Co., New York. $1.00. 



"Commercial Violet Culture." By B. T. 

 Galloway. This is such a book as amateur 

 Violet growers would do well to get, and read 

 carefully. It is by a man who is authority on 

 A'iolet growing, and treats of all phases of 

 the business. Inquiries about the "knack" of 

 growing this popular flower well come in by 

 the score. I would advise all interested in it 

 to procure this book, which covers the ground 

 fully, and is full of valuable information- 

 valuable because practical. A. T. De Le Mare 

 Co., New York. $1.00. 



"The American Carnation: How to Grow 

 It." By Chas. W. Wood. This sumptuous book 

 is one that every person loving the Carnation 

 ought to have, for it gives a most complete 

 history of "the divine flower," and the various 

 methods of treatment by which it is grown to 

 such perfection at the present. Its author is 

 one of our foremost Carnationists, some of our 

 most popular varieties having been grown by 

 him. Illustrated superbly, with many plates 

 in color. A. T. De Le Mare Co., New York. 

 $3.00. 



Rural School Agriculture, Bulletin No. 1, 

 University of Minnesota, St. Anthony Park, Min- 

 nesota. Price 60c., or in lots of five or more, 

 50c, carriage prepaid. This bulletin is a unique 

 attempt to. place in the hands of the rural school 

 teacher detailed plans for leading the country 

 pupils to study the things of the farm and the 

 farm home. It was edited by Messrs. Hays, 

 Robertson and Wojta, but was in part written by 

 other members of the faculty of the Minnesota 

 Agricultural College. It contains 237 exercises 

 to be eaiTied out by the pupils. Each exercise 

 is complete in itself. It gives the object to be 

 sought, the materials to be used, and the plan in 

 detail which the teacher is to have the pupil 

 carry out in doing the work of each experiment. 

 The materials required are such as may be avail- 

 able at the school or in the farm home. 



A Fine Book Free 



The attention of readers of Home and Fi-owers is called to 

 the offer of a very desirable book on page3l . The author, Dr. 

 Sproule, B. A., whose offices are at 9 to 17 Doane Street, 

 Boston, is a famous specialist and an interesting helpful and 

 writer on medical matters. His finely illustrated book on 

 Constipation, which he will send free to all sufferers from 

 that trouble, is one of the best of his works. 



The Trouble with a Fountain Pen 



You have tried fountain pens and been dis- 

 gusted. We don't wonder. The average fou:> 

 tain pen would disgust any one and try the pa- 

 tience of an angel. It is never ready to wo - k. 

 When you need it you find it empty. It can only 

 be filled by means of a special filler. When you 

 go to fill it the filler is somewhere else. When 

 you find the filler and try to fill the pen you 

 overdo the job. The thing runs over and you 

 black your fingers and the carpet— and your 

 conscience by the things you think. After you 

 get it filled and have wiped up the carpet and 

 washed your hands and sit down to write you 

 find it won't write. You did not have the kind 

 of ink to suit his penship. At last you throw it 

 away, get an old-fashioned pen and an inkstand, 

 and write your letter. 



You don't have any of that trouble, however, 

 if you have a Post fountain pen. If it is empty 

 you just dip the end in a bottle of ink— the pen 

 don't care what kind — draw out the plunger, 

 and, presto! it is filled and ready for business. 

 Your hands are clean and your temper unruffled. 

 If it gets dirty you dip the end in a bowl of 

 water, work the plunger in and out a few times, 

 and the job is done. 



A Post fountain pen is a thing of beauty and 

 a joy forever. 



And one beauty about it is the fact that you 

 can get one of these pens now "without money 

 and without price." 



To learn how this can be done read pages 

 1 and 8 of this issue of Home and. Flowers. 



Girls don't want jackknives, but they do love 

 a neat, genteel ladies' penknife. The Ladies' 

 Pearl-Handled Penknife described on page 3 

 of this issue would delight the heart of any 

 girl in the country. And any girl can get that 

 knife without a cent of money by getting up 

 a club of ten trial subscribers to Home and 

 Flowers at ten cents each. What do you think 

 of that? The knife would cost a dollar cash at 

 most of the stores, and you can get it free by 

 getting ten persons to subscribe for Home and 

 Plowers for three months on trial at ten cents 

 each. It's easy work. Almost anybody will give 

 the magazine a trial, when it only costs a dime 

 to do so, if you ask them in the right way. 

 Try it. 



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