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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Oct. i, 1910. 
COMING 
October 18-21, 1910 
THE FIRST 
Post Series Tournament 
On the Grounds of the Indianapolis Gun Club 
INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 
$1000.00 ADDED 
IN CASH AND TROPHIES 
Amateurs who have shot at 1200 sixteen 
yard targets in registered tournaments 
held during 1910 are eligible to shoot 
in the Post Series Tournament. 
Plan to attend and order your shells 
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SMOKELESS POWDERS 
Canvas Canoes and How to Build Them. 
By Parker B. Field. With a plan and all dimensions. 
Forty-eight pages. Price, 50 cents. 
This little book, written by an enthusiastic and prac¬ 
tical canoeist, who regards his favorite pursuit as far 
superior to bicycling, driving, riding or yachting for 
healthful exercise, is well worth reading by any one 
contemplating an outing. By careful attention to the 
instructions any man of ordinary mechanical talent may 
construct a good, serviceable canoe to carry 200 pounds, 
at a cost of six or seven dollars, and as the weight of 
such a canoe is given as only 35 pounds, it should well 
repay the cost of carriage to a lake or country. The 
book gives very precise instructions not only for building 
the canoe, but for remedying all the injuries to which 
it is liable to be exposed. The instructions are very 
clearly given and the cost of building is so low that it 
constitutes a great inducement to spend one’s outing in 
a lake country. 
Hints and Points for Sportsmen. 
Compiled by “Seneca.” Cloth. Illustrated, 244 pages. 
Price, $1.50. 
This compilation comprises six hundred odd hints, 
helps, kinks, wrinkles, points and suggestions for the 
shooter, the fisherman, the dog owner, the yachtsman, 
the canoeist, the camper, the outer; in short, for the 
field sportsman in the varied phases of his activity. 
“Hints and Points” has proved one of the most prac¬ 
tically useful works of reference in the sportsman’s 
library. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
— Dixon’s Graphite for Sportsmen — 
A lubricant and preservative; for fishing rods and reels; 
for gunlocks and barrels; for row, sail and motor boats. 
Booklets “Graphite Afloat and Afield” and "Dixon’s 
Motor Graphite” free on request. 
JOSEPH DIXON CRUCIBLE CO. - • Jersey City, N. J. 
EGYPTIAN LOTUS IN NEW JERSEY. 
Famous among flowers is the lotus of Egypt, 
famous in history, in symbolism and in art. This 
exquisite flower is being successfully cultivated 
in the vicinity of Newark, N. J., where, accord¬ 
ing to the Sunday Call, it may be seen by visitors. 
There is the w r hite lotus of the Nile and the 
fragrant blue one, about the size of our own 
sweet-scented waterlily. There is also a rose- 
colored species which grows throughout the 
East, but is no longer found in the Nile, though 
many sculptured representations remain. This 
is regarded by some authorities as the “sacred” 
lotus of the Nile, while others think the white 
variety is entitled to that distinction, and many 
state that the blue lotus was the one held in 
highest esteem by the ancients. However that 
may be. the rose-colored lotus is a native of 
Egypt and sufficiently beautiful to lie reverenced 
as a work of the Creator. This variety is now 
in full bloom in Branch Brook Park and there 
is a series of small ponds covered with the 
large, rosy lilies on Springfield avenue, Irving¬ 
ton. 
About six years ago Elias W.. Durand, a well- 
known resident of the Irvington section, planted 
a bulb of this species in a box which he sunk 
beneath the water of a pond on his estate, and 
as the box fell apart, the plant developed and 
put forth runners, very much as strawberries 
do, forming other plants, until to-day the three 
or four little artificial ponds are overrun with a 
network of leaves, sterns and blossoms which is 
sure to appeal to the admiration of all who view 
it. 
Mr. Durand did not plant the lotus with the 
idea of profiting thereby. It was simply an ex¬ 
periment. but it thrived so wonderfully and at¬ 
tracted so much attention that there was quite 
a demand for the bulbs and blossoms. Pie also 
cultivated red, yellow and blue varieties of water 
lilies, and as much as $15 a root has been of¬ 
fered for some of the ' specimens. 
About the borders of the ponds are large 
quantities of jewel and arrowhead in blossom, 
adding much to the setting of the picture, but 
it is on the rosy flowers of the lotus, with their 
golden hearts that the visitor’s attention is 
riveted. William A. Regad, the caretaker, is 
very willing to show anyone who is interested 
over the estate and to let them examine the 
plants and blossoms at their leisure. 
Mr. Durand, who died about two years ago 
at the age of eighty-six, besides achieving such 
gratifying results in his lily-growmg venture, 
was at one time one of the most successful 
strawberry raisers in that section and was also 
interested in the culture of goldfish. And last, 
but certainly not least, this versatile man was a 
landscape painter of renown. One of his paint¬ 
ings, entitled “Sabbath Morning,” is on exhibi¬ 
tion at the Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington. 
Pie studied with his uncle, also a celebrated 
painter. Asher B. Durand, and C. Durand Chap¬ 
man, the well-known water color artist, is his 
cousin. 
NATIONAL FORESTS AS NATIONAL 
PLAYGROUNDS. 
Beforr the year’s outing season is over 
nearly half a million persons will have sought 
recreation and health in the National Forests 
of the United States. According to the record 
of the United States Department of- Agricul¬ 
ture, the total last year was, in close figures, 
406,775. With the finest mountain scenery and 
much of the best fishing and big-game hunting 
in the United States, the National forests, made 
more and more accessible each year through 
protection and development by the Government, 
are fast becoming great National playgrounds 
for the people. 
The use of the forests for recreation is as 
yet in its beginning, but is growing steadily and 
rapidly—in some of the forests at the rate of a 
hundred per cent, per annum. The day seems 
not far distant whet, a million persons will an¬ 
nually visit them. 
The records show that the seasonal use of 
the forests runs from two months in a Colo¬ 
rado forest, such as the Routt, to twelve months 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
