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LANDSCAPE GARDENING 
ESTABLISHED 1890. 
OBJECT: To advance Art out-of-Doors, with 
special reference to the Improvement of parks, 
cemeteries, home grounds, and the promotion of 
Town and Village Improvement Associations, 
etc. 
John W. Weston, C. E., Editor, 
R, J. HAIGHT, Publisher, 
324 Dearborn St„ CHICAGO, 
Eastern Office s 
1538 Am, Tract Society Bldg,, New York, 
Subscription Sl.OO a Year In Advance. 
Foreign Subscription $1.50. 
Published Monthly. 
Issued on the 15th of the Month. 
H. L. Jones. Illustrated. F. I., ii : 
481-85. Oct., ’05. 
Seedling Stages, Importance of Inves- 
tigations of. By J. A. Harris. Sci. 
Am. Sup., 60:24806-7. Sept. 2, ’05. 
Tree- Planting, How Boston Encourages. 
Illustrated. G. M., 2:166b. Nov., ’05. 
Tree Planting on Minnesota Prairies. 
By Geo. L. Clothier. Illustrated. F. 
I. , 11:458-69. Oct., ’05. 
Vegetation of Middle and South-east 
Mexico. By C. A. Purpus. Illus- 
trated. M. D. G. (German), 20:473- 
79. Oct. 7, ’05. 
What Trees to Plant — I. The American 
Elm. By J. Woodward Manning. 
Illustrated. Indoors and Out, i :22-4. 
Oct., ’05. 
White Mountain Forest Reserve, A. By 
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Books, Reports, Etc. 
“The Outlook to Nature,” by Prof. 
L. H. Bailey, of Cornell, is the latest of 
the Nature books. It is published by the 
Macmillan Co., and contains four lec- 
tures, delivered in the Colonial Theater, 
Boston, under the auspices of the Twen- 
tieth Century Club. The lectures are 
entitled : “The Realm of the Common- 
place,” “Country and City,” “The 
School of the Future,” and “The Quest 
of Truth.” 
In “The Realm of the Commonplace” 
the author tells of the ways of approach 
to nature, and leads his readers in an 
intimate personal way. to an apprecia- 
tion of some of the common beauties of 
natural objects. Country and City is 
an appreciation of the growing tendency 
•countryward, and is an excellent con- 
trast of country and city life. The 
School of the Future, and the part that 
nature is to play in it, forms the subject 
of the next chapter. The Quest of 
Truth is a discussion of the bearing of 
evolution on the outlook to nature. 
The essays are all delightfully written, 
are full of sentiment and suggestion, 
and will furnish interesting reading to 
■all nature lovers. 
The Report of the Massachusetts 
Horticultural Society for 1904, Part II, 
gives reports of the various officers 
and committees and of the annual meet- 
ing. A very interesting illustrated re- 
port by the Committee on. School Gar- 
dens and Native Plants shows marked 
progress in that work during the year. 
The committee awarded a list of prizes 
and gratuities amounting to $225. The 
first prize was awarded to the Fair- 
haven School Gardens, and the second 
to the Groton Children’s Gardens, and 
detailed reports from these schools and 
the Cobbet Garden are included in the 
report. The report for 1905, Part I, 
contains the horticultural papers and 
discussion presented at the inaugural 
meeting Jan. 7, 1905. Among the papers 
presented were : “Some Aspects of 
Hardy Flower Culture,” by Arthur 
Herrington ; “The Return to Nature,” 
by Miss Maude Summers; a general 
discussion on Flowers, led by J. Wood- 
ward Manning, and “Bacteria as Fertil- 
izers,” by Dr. Geo. T. Moore. 
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The United States Department of 
Agriculture has issued Bulletin 160, on 
School Gardens. This contains a re- 
port upon the co-operative work with 
the Normal Schools of Washington, 
with notes on school garden methods in 
other cities. It is prepared by B. T. 
Galloway, Chief of the Bureau of Plant 
Industry, and contains many illustra- 
tions of school garden work in Wash- 
ington and other cities. 
Publisher’s Notes. 
C. W. Fester, for 15 years superin- 
tendent of Fairview Cemetery, Council 
