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House and Garden 
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Designing and Building Greenhouses 
hasjbeen the" business of Hitchings & Co. 
for jnany years—been at it long enough to 
know the best way your greenhouse should 
be built. Send 5c to 1170 Broadway, New 
York, for our Greenhouse Booklet. 
HITCHINGS AND COMPANY 
Greenhouse Designers and Builders 
Manufacturers of 
Heating and Ventilating Apparatus 
1170 Broadway - New York 
Piazza* Hotel Titchfield . 
Finest Tropical Hotel in the World. Accommodations for 400 people. 
All modern conveniences : Private Baths, Elevator, Electric Lights, 
Music, Fishing, Sailing, Tennis, Bathing, Driving, Saddlehorses. Harbor 
illumination every week. Automobiles to hire. Garage. 
THE JAMAICA TOURIST INFORMATION BUREAU. 
, 673 Boylston St., Boston, Mass., will, upon request, give detailed 
information of Hotel Accommodations, Steamship Sailings, Auto¬ 
mobile and Carriage Trips, and Special Attractions of Jamaica. 
Ainslie & Grabow, Managers ^ 
673 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts fjS 
Proprietors, NEW OCEAN HOUSE, Swampscott, Massachusetts 
Hotel Titchfield I 
OPENS DECEMBER 30 
Situated at Port Antonio, Jamaica, British 
IVest Indies — In the Land of Perpetual June 
Reached by the Hamburg-American Line from New York, Royal Mail 
Line from New York and the United Fruit Company from 
Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore 
well spiked on, and there are cross-bear¬ 
ings across the threes and between the 
threes. Then there are three to five 
six-inch boards nailed on along the outer 
set of verticals to form a railing or fence; 
and a floor is laid at each story. This 
being done, and the building being well- 
nigh indistinguishable, the painters or 
the plasterers, as the case may be, are 
ready to work—at least after all the 
principal members of the structure have 
been w^ell dogged together by dog-irons 
at every opportunity for driving them. 
Where the building is taller than the 
poles, these are lengthened by lapping; 
but in this case the scaffold has more 
“spread” from the face of the wall. 
The whole is usually kept from tipping 
over outwards by its surrounding the 
whole building at once; but where this 
is not the case, numerous holdfasts avert 
a catastrophe to the workmen and to 
passers-by. The American Architect. 
THE TOMBSTONES AT SCUTARI 
\ T Scutari the coup d'ceil is pictur- 
^ esque in the extreme. As far as 
one can see, the long, slender shafts of 
marble rise beneath the shadow of the 
massive cypresses—the tree of Allah, the 
Osmanli call it, which points its finger to 
the sky—wdiile the luxuriant vegetation 
of the f^iast clusters around the base of 
the slabs, emphasizing their snowy 
whiteness and preventing them from be¬ 
ing too dazzling to the eye. Each tomb 
hears its own decoration. A single 
leaflet, the drooping petals of a rose, or 
graceful frond of fern indicate that a 
female form lies below. A turban or a 
fez shows that the dead person was a 
man. Lamps, ostrich eggs, sashes, 
fringed and colored handkerchiefs of 
varied hue, all have their own significa- 
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tion; while here and there will be some 
tall stone sculptured from end to end, its 
ornamentation in high relief, encircled 
by a number of smaller stones, which 
proves that the father of a family—a 
man of wealth—rests here, surrounded 
by his wives and children. A curved 
scimitar shows that a man of war reposes 
there, an anchor marks the sleeping 
place of a sailor, a wand of office proves 
that the dead man held some post of 
command. So on, till something is 
learned of all, even though one may not 
be able to decipher the fantastic Arabic 
characters which tell with detail the 
history of the dead .—The Churchman. 
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