House and Garden 
been swept away without a regret. 
Happily this will be so no longer. Some 
years ago the late William Morris or¬ 
ganized a society to protect ancient 
buildings, and in connection with this 
society a committee was appointed for 
the purpose of compiling a register of 
old things worth preserving, and beauty- 
spots liable to be defaced within an area 
comprising a large part of Greater Lon¬ 
don. 
The item, whatever it be, is cata¬ 
logued, and its description is accom¬ 
panied by careful plans, drawings, and 
photographs. More than this, the com¬ 
mittee have obtained the recognitioiTof 
the London County Council, and the 
outcome of this is that a permanent body 
has been appointed to make a regis¬ 
ter or list of buildings of historic or 
architectural interest. It is still more 
satisfactory to learn that by an act 
passed the Council has acquired power 
to purchase or provide for the main¬ 
tenance of buildings or places which 
come under the same description.— 
Chambers’s journal. 
STONE FENCES GO 
' I '‘HE stone fences of Connecticut, 
says the “New York Sun,” are 
doomed, and in a few years will be but a 
memory. In their place are miles of 
wire fences. When New Yorkers began 
to seek the country in the summer time, 
Connecticut became dotted with an ever- 
increasing number of costly cottages, for 
the construction of which stone was the 
best and most durable material. Then 
it was that the builders turned to the 
fences, from which stone could be ob¬ 
tained without the labor of quarrying. 
Contractors went about buying up stone 
fences, and farmers, eager to realize on 
this crop that their ancestors had tilled 
for them, found that even after new wire 
fences had been put up, they had a good 
profit from the sale of the stones. 
Farmers like wire fences, too, because 
they take up practically no room, and 
can be kept clean, whereas stone fences 
were fringed by weeds and bushes that 
could never be mowed or plowed out. 
In any other State the wire fences would 
not be unattractive, but here they seem 
strangely out of place, and to lovers of 
old-time Connecticut the absence of the 
stone fences will be a loss that the hand¬ 
some modern country places cannot 
compensate for .—Country Gentleman. 
838 \g/ 1908 
NENRrA.DREEI 
mCHESTHUai 
PHlLADELPfiK 
,, _ 70‘^'AnniversaryNumber 
'^•reer’s Carden Book 
Everyone interested m Flowers or Vegetables, 
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Conceded to be the most complete, helpful and 
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Newest and Best things for the Garden 
We will send a copy without charge if you mention this magazine. 
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714 Chestnut Street 
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A perfectly double form of our 
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Imagine our beautiful native Hy¬ 
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