House and Garden 
strand 
for October 
Contains the first of a splendid series of articles, beautifully illustrated, entitled 
“EnglisK Homes and Gardens’* 
Describing' and illustrating the most famous of the beautiful homes in this land 
of beautiful homes and gardens. 
These articles will be of particular interest to all who take pleasure in the beautify¬ 
ing of their homes. Eight full-page and half-page photographs are given in this number. 
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“The World^s Most Beautiful Women 
Illustrated by Eight Duotone Full-Page Photographs 
The STRAND for October contains the first of a series of photographs in which 
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beauty of various nations. If one were to ask which nation produces the prettiest 
women and the most xiniversally admired, he would have to find out, by some means or 
other, what each nation regards as its prettiest women. 
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entitled “My African Journey,” which deepens in interest as it progresses. “Reminiscences and Reflections” 
of SIR JOHN HARE, the eminent English actor, describes some highly amusing and interesting experi¬ 
ences in America; HARRY PURNISS, the famous caricaturist, writes about and illustrates the “Comic 
Side of Crime;” CAMILLE FLAMiM ARION, the eminent French Astronomer, contributes a wonderful 
article entitled “Worlds: The Dust o.f the Infinite;” W. W. J.YCOBS’ story of “Salthaven” is uproariously 
funny; there are also some splendid short stories by popular authors; “Curiosities” still continues to be a 
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was but halt of that of eight years earlier. 
As is always the case, the decreasing 
supplies of the more valuable woods 
have caused those once considered of 
little or no value to be drawn upon 
heavily. This has been particularly 
true with hemlock, so' that now more 
hemlock than pine lumber is manufac¬ 
tured in Wisconsin, and twice as much 
hemlock as pine is cut in Michigan. 
There have been heavy increases in the 
use of maple, birch and beech within 
the past few years, but the maximum 
cut of these species is probably near at 
hand; and taking all ol the hardwoods 
together, there has been a slight falling 
off since 1899. 
SEASONABLE NOTES 
Lontcera Heckrothi belongs to the sec¬ 
tion in which are included the English 
woodbine and the Belgian honeysuckle, 
d'he flowers are borne in the end of the 
shoots of the same season’s growth; they 
are pink in the bud, becoming yellowish 
white when open, and they possess the 
sweet odor for which the other two men¬ 
tioned are famed. 
The heads of Catalpa Bungei as well 
as those of other standard or weeping 
trees, are sometimes partly broken in 
storms. In such cases when winter 
comes prune the whole head back as far 
as where the breaks are, then a new, 
uniform growth follows, re-establishing 
a good head. 
Wax myrtle is well named—wax for 
the substance which covers its berries, 
and myrtle for its leaves, which both in 
appearance and fragrance remind one of 
those of the true myrtle of Southern i 
Europe, Myrtus communis. Myrica 
cerifera is the name of the wax myrtle; 
it is a valuable evergreen in many 
respects. 
It seems strange that the Paulownia 
is not reliably hardy in England, when 
it is entirely so here where our cold is of a 
zero nature every winter. But it shows 
what thorough ripening of the woods 
will do, for this is what our hot summers 
bring about; and it is a hint to plant 
everything of questionable hardiness to 
situations where ripening of the growth 
will have every chance. 
Besides being the last shrub of the 
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