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Unique in that it gives sizes as well as prices. 
Uni que in its too engravings of noted grounds and 
specimens. 
Unique in what it lacks, viz: effusiveness. 
Unique in its handsome discounts. 
Large sizes for immediate effect. Specially low rates ■ 
on car-lots of Rhododendrons and Conifers. 
Harris Nurseries Tarrytown, N. Y. 
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tion with a rake or pronged weeder, rather 
than with a hoe. By this means the ground 
is kept always loose and soft on top, so 
that it never bakes or loses moisture, even 
during drouths. Under this sort of cul¬ 
tivation weeds do not exist. 
Now the Big Man is experimenting to 
obtain earlier vegetables by the use of a 
hot-bed. Beets, which always grow better 
if transplanted, are started under glass. 
Tomatoes he raises in flower pots until 
they are ready to blossom and bear fruit, as 
soon as it is warm enough to transplant 
them. Even sweet corn, for which he still 
hankers, is planted in strawberry baskets 
in the house, a hill in each basket, and then 
transplanted. Summer squashes are plant¬ 
ed in the same way, and the boxes care¬ 
fully cut away when he transplants them 
to the open ground. These last are the 
frills; but the garden itself is always full 
of solid achievement. 
William Futhey Gibbons. 
The Commuter’s Long Island 
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Neck Bay and Bayside. At the head of 
the Bay is Douglaston, and farther on the 
village of Little Neck, followed by Great 
Neck, which occupies the high bluff be¬ 
tween Little Neck Bay and Manhasset 
Bay. Here the farms have rapidly given 
way before large estates. Manhasset 
lies along a steep hillside with the Bay to 
the north, while half-way up the neck on 
the east lies Port Washington with its 
miles of water front and its unusual at¬ 
tractions for the yachtsman. Across Cow 
Neck which divides Manhasset Bay from 
Hempstead Harbor, lies Roslyn, another 
community mainly of large estates. Glen 
Head, Sea Cliff, Glen Cove, Nassau, and 
Locust Valley occupy the long slope on 
the east side of Hempstead Harbor, while 
further east on Oyster Bay are found 
Middle Neck and the town of Oyster Bay. 
Everyone has heard of Manhattan 
Beach and Coney Island, but of more in¬ 
terest to the commuter are some of the 
quieter and more homelike communities 
lying back of Sheepshead Bay on the 
mainland. There is Rockaway Beach, 
with its summer colonies of Belle Harbor 
and Rockaway Park, sixteen miles from 
New York. Arverne, Edgemere, Far- 
Rockaway and Ostend are cottage and ho¬ 
tel colonies resembling the Atlantic City 
type. 
Turning back from the beach, the rail¬ 
road touches Lawrence, the location of 
many excellent bits of domestic architec¬ 
ture, and Cedarhurst, still further inland 
with many of the larger class of homes. 
Woodmere and Hewletts also have become 
famous for their excellently designed 
houses. From Valley Stream, which is a 
junction point, the Montauk road con¬ 
tinues to Lynbrook, from which a spur 
runs south to East Rockaway and Long 
Beach, with its seashore hotels and cot¬ 
tages. From Lvnbrook the Montauk di- 
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