House and Garden 
jy/TR. R. H. RUSSELL announces that he has again personally resumed the publication 
of art books, fiction, enriched and limited editions, pictorial reprints, and general 
literature under the imprint of; 
R. H. RUSSELL 
He wishes particularly at this time, because of their unique value, to call your atten¬ 
tion to seven books by 
CHARLES DANA GIBSON 
who has just come back to this country, reiterat- 
statement that he would not return to 
the field of his early and remarkable success in 
pen and ink characterization of American 
types and manners. 
T-'he books listed below printed on heavy 
plate paper and bound in Japan vellum prac¬ 
tically cover his work; 
The Social Ladder - - - - 
Americans. 
A Widow and Her Friends - 
The Education of Mr. Pipp - 
Sketches and Cartoons - - 
Pictures of People - - - - 
People of Dickens - - . - 
JAMES McNEILL WHISTLER 
His own witty satire on the cause ceVebre which excited and diverted Europe and 
America, “The Baronet and the Butterfly,” with the author’s butterfly signature in gold 
on the cover. .$1.25. 
More of the famous Wolfville Stories, by Alfred Henry Lewis, entitled “The 
Black Lion Inn.” $1.50. 
“The Tiger and the Insect,” a sequel to “ Helen’s Babies,” by John H.\iiiiERTON. 
$ 1 . 20 . 
Write for a list of other important publications. Every direct purchase of five 
dollars’ worth of books will entitle you to a year’s subscription to 
THE METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE 
The Great Monthly for the American Home 
The July number contains among other striking things: 
“ Hypnotism and Freedom—Curative Hypnotism,” by Prof. Hugo Munsterberg; “The 
Night Riders,” an Account of the Tobacco War, by Day Allen Willey; “The Passing of 
the Ferries,” by Jackson Cross, pictures by Alvin Jyangdon Coburn; “The Wedding Journey 
of Felice Arguello,” by Charles Frederick Holder, and “The Color Line,” by Lucy Pratt. 
15 CENTS A COPY $1.50 A YEAR 
R. H. RUSSELL, Publisher HR 3 W. 29th St., New York 
MR. C. H. FORBES=LINDSAY 
according to the Cleveland Leader, has written in this book, 
“an authoritative history of the Panama Canal from the first 
shovel of earth that was turned to the ])resent time, told in 
plain, everyday language. It begins with Balboa and reaches 
to Roosevelt, and between them all that is valuable and 
authentic is set down.” 
PANAMA 
The Isthmus and the Canal 
Cloth, 308 pj)., 16 illu.strations, 2 maps from latest surveys. 
ONE DOLLAR NET 
At all bookstores. 
THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO., Publishers, Philadelphia. 
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dilution of material by the use of three 
vessels. Put tw enty-five gallons of v\ ater 
in the barrel. Dilute the blue-stone 
solution containing five pounds to 
tw^elve and one-half gallons. Dilute 
five pounds slaked lime likewise, then 
dip it alternately from each solution into 
the fifty gallon barrel. Whatever the 
particular method employed, however, 
the end is the same. Put the copper 
sulphate and lime solutions together 
after diluting each as much as possible. 
Don’t mix concentrated solutions. If 
this is done, with the idea of diluting to 
spraying strength later, the mixture 
curdles, and a thick, heavy precipitate is 
formed which settles so rapidly that it is 
impossible to do a good job of spraying. 
A precipitate in a properly made Bor¬ 
deaux should stay in suspension for half 
an hour with almost no perceptible 
settling. When putting the spray mix¬ 
ture into the tank, alw^ays strain care¬ 
fully .—Home and Farm. 
EXPORTS OF FOREST PRODUCT 
T TNCI^E Sam’s exports of forest prod- 
ucts have shown higher and 
higher values during the last five or six 
years. This has been the case although 
reports show that there has not been a 
corresponding increase in volume. For 
instance, the quantity of sawed timber 
exported from this country has increased 
less than twelve per cent in the last four 
years, while the price has increased over 
fifty per cent. Again, the amount of 
rosin exported has increased but little, 
while the price has more than doubled. 
From 1903 to 1906 the value of staves 
showed very little increase, but in the 
year 1907 there was a decrease in the 
number exported of about ten per cent, 
together with an increase in the price of 
about twenty per cent. This last 
would seem to indicate a recognition of 
the fact that the supply of the highest 
grades of white oak is rapidly dimin¬ 
ishing. The staves exported are almost 
exclusively of the highest grades of white 
oak and form about a fifth of the annual 
production of white oak staves in the 
United States. As might be supposed, 
a large part—eighty per cent—of the 
staves went to Europe, forty per cent to 
France. The export trade makes a 
heavy drain on the supply of white oak. 
Boards, deals, planks, and sawed 
timher|made|up fifty per cent of the 
total value of forest product exports. 
In writing to advertisers please mention Hol.se and Gakdex. 
