House and Garden 
Scribner’s Magazine 
COPYRIGHT 1907, CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SO S 
usual, the AUGUST number will con¬ 
tain a group of the best short stories of 
the year, and some beautiful color printing, in¬ 
cluding the cover, a frontispiece by MAXFIELD 
PARRISH and a series of drawings by HAR¬ 
RISON FISHER. It is in every respect a 
notable number. 
Some Remarks on Gulls, With a 
Footnote on a Fish By Henry van Dyke 
COPYRIGHT 1907, CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 
“Brave spirits of the sea and of the shore" 
Few birds are more interesting in their manner of \ 
life or more suggestive of the mystery and poetry of the ' 
sea. The author gives his observations of the gulls of ; 
Manhattan and then follows them along the coast to some 
of their brooding places off the coast of Maine. Inci- j 
dentally, he tells of how he and Gypsy caught the big \ 
ouananiche in the ‘‘Gull’s Bath-Tub.” The article is illus- ! 
tratecl with drawings by Schoonover and with some re- j 
markable photographs by Herbert K. Job. \ 
A Day at the Country Club ! 
Drawings by Harrison Fisher Reproduced in colors j 
A charming series of story-telling pictures by this ; 
popular artist. “Wanted: An Answer“ByplayI 
“Fore“Fisherman's Luck.” 
Mortimer’s Failure By Jesse Lynch Williams j 
The causes of Mortimer's failure were not any lack ! 
of business acumen or vain plungings in Wall Street, j 
Quite the contrary. That the failure proved in every ; 
sense a good investment is made fully apparent to the I 
reader of the story. Mrs. Mortimer rose splendidly to j 
the situation. Illustrated by Yohn. \ 
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The Fruit of the Tree By Edith Wharton : 
In the August installment Mrs. Wharton's novel ! 
reaches one of its tragic climaxes and prepares the reader ■ 
for a situation that involves a problem of the most vital ; 
interest. \ 
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"One cannot rise from reading this 
book without feeling that It is a not¬ 
able contribution to current litera¬ 
ture .”—Philadelphia Inquirer. 
“Thoroughly original, fresh, earn¬ 
est, sparkling with wit and humor.” 
—Chicago Record-Herald. 
“CLASSIC.” 
“A book which is destined to be¬ 
come one of the gems of modern 
novels. The plot is deep, strong, 
graphically told and will not be for¬ 
gotten as that of many passing nov¬ 
els, hut will be cherished as a classic, 
as a story of right against wrong 
which is destined to bring about a 
great change in the child labor ques¬ 
tion.”— Birmingham, Newt. 
These breaks were then connected by 
means of little strips of lead. The 
whole laboratory force was kept busy 
all that day casting these little strips of 
lead, so it will be seen in the short space 
of an hour’s time, after the emergency 
has presented itself and asserted its 
importance, Mr. Edison had produced 
what is to-day one of the most valuable 
and vital devices in every electrical 
circuit. To finish the story, it may be 
said that when the evening came a now 
well-known electrician was standing 
with one of Mr. Edison’s assistants and 
said to him: “I think I will play a joke 
on I om, and just lay this bar of copper 
across the circuit.” The assistant re¬ 
plied: “You can’t hurt anything by 
doing that.” Nevertheless, the bar 
was laid across. Four lamps burned 
out, the balance kept right on at work. 
A man came and repaired the fuses, 
and, much to the astonished electri¬ 
cian’s surprise, everything went on as 
smoothly as before. — N. T. Electrical 
Revi ew. 
HORTICULTURAL NOTES 
A writer in “Park and Cemetery” 
states that the superintendent of Audu¬ 
bon Park, New Orleans, has adopted a 
plan to cure and preserve trees with hol¬ 
low trunks that is “original,” by filling 
the hollows with cement. The plan is a 
good one, but it is by no means “origi¬ 
nal”; it has been in practice in these 
parts many a year. 
Our native beech makes a grand tree 
when set out where it can grow at will 
untrammeled. When of some age it 
takes on the drooping character of its 
lower branches which so distinguishes 
the pin oak. This, with its white bark, 
gives it a character that calls for its 
planting. 
Paulownia plants are so easily raised 
from seeds that any other mode is not 
considered. But when desired it propa¬ 
gates readily from pieces of root, cut up 
and set outdoors in early spring, or in a 
greenhouse. 
As soon as summer flowering shrubs 
are out of bloom, give them a fair pru¬ 
ning back. Many of them, especially 
spiraeas, if so treated, flower again in 
autumn, some of them as freely as in 
their first display. 
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