The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-02

tint paper which adorn this issue Is all
 excellent likeness of Ralph Waldo
 Emerson which forms the frontispiece of the number. The other portraits are
 ex Mayor Brown. Clara Bewick Colby and Ryan Walker.
 | Garden Magazine for April.
 The Garden Magazine for April is
 a double Planting Number" contain
 Ing new kind of planting tables with
 minute directions on the thousand and one different details of all flower,
 vegetable and fruit growing on largo l estates as well as fin the suburban
 backyard Among the leading features | The Gardners Reminder" shows what
 to plan as well as what to do each | week: Small Fruits for the Home Garden" Is about the large and lus-
 cious berries that are The despair of
 the grocer: The Best Towering Shrubs plans the cheapest and most permanent way to get flowers; while 1 Planting Tables for Vegetables" is a
 quick and easy guide showing when l and how to plant seventy-fOur kinds of vegetables, how to cultivate them. | when they are ready to eat, and what
 they arc good for-adapted to the small
 home garden cultivated by hand or by | wheel-hoe. There is also a separate Planting Table for Flowers" which will enable the amateur to have chos- | en varieties the year around. Among other important features. "The Best | Tall Perennials" deals with such plants | as Hollyhocks, Plume Topples, Golden glow, Rayenna Grass and etc, for spe- cia1 purposes; Planting The Homo Fruit Garden" emphasizes the fmpor- | tance of good stock and shows why the amateur often needlessly fails to get good results; and How to Grow Roses | Out of Doors" along the same lines,
 will save trouble for the beginner, and l the professional gardener as well. The
 many regular departments have an
 unusually timely significance. Such
 subjects as the starting of new lawn
 grass and the important spring rolling of the old lawn; how & little fore thought may save the fruit tree buds: what to do to get sweet peas from June to November, perpetual roses, and great many others, deal with things that are uppermost in the mind of country loving people at this time
 of the year. There are some interest ing directions for planting just enough
 to supply family of six with the vege- tables and fruit they will need. Alto gether 1t is a wonderfully helpful and unique number and notwithstanding the influx of outdoor books and perl odicals the past year or so there would be a well-defined and most important place thrilled were it not for this beau tiful new magazine which Doubleday Page and Company are publishing so successfully at one dollar a year and ten cents a number. It supplies the
 real help that English gardners and
 owners of country places have had for years, in magazines printed in a less attractive form.
 Country Life in America for April. Country Life in America for April Is
 strong outdoor number. Every side
 of spring life is treated. The issue opens with an article entitled, "The Training of a Polo Pony" wherein every stage of the pony's development from the time it is caught wild on a Uvalde ranch to the time 1t is a per- fected player is described. The ar- ticle might be called The Romance of | Horse Buying"
 Oliver Bronson Capen continues his | strong series entitled County Homes of Famous Americans" by a descrip- tive article the home of Andrew | Jackson, in which he brings out the
 hitherto little known fact that Jack son managed his farm hundreds of
 miles away while he was President at the White House.
 The Strange Art of Pigeon Fancy ing" makes a bitter attack on the tribe of fanciers charging them with de- liberately maltreating the birds whose type they are developing, and hasten ing and manipulating nature by cruel
 processes. Coming at the time of the pigeon shows it will awaken criti- cism
 E. c. Holtzoper continues his funda- ,fal atstto to1A bt-n fnti ix-A af | the selection of the site. He shows | now the house must be scrupulously | adapted to the plot of ground on which | it Is to be built, and that rocks de-
 mand a different type of architecture from rolling prairie or palm-lfn
 avenue. These articles of MT. Holtz- | oper are being put into practical effect
 by the architects and amateur builders
 of the United States.
 1 Leonard Barron tells of Roses for
 Special Purposes" and intimates that
 roses can be grown from seaside to
 mountain top, in the city and vacation
 houses to perfect satisfaction if. the | proper varieties are selected The im-
 mense double page picture which has | become a feature of Country Life in | America has for It's subject matter this
 month. Roses for Pergolas" and
 shows that style of outdoor archltec- ture adorned by blooms tltteen feet high.
 Herbert K. Job writes on The Ex-
 termination of the Egrets for wom-
 cn's Hats" He makes a heartfelt
 plea for the beautiful bird which is
 being massacred for the sake of it's | plumed feathers
 "Butterfly and Moth Collecting as
 an Industry" describes a most romantic | business. The city dealer that sells butterflies for a few cents in a glass
 covered case has his agents posted in
 all the unknown parts of the globe.
 One such dealer has representatives in
 German Africa. Senegambia Guate-
 mala and Mexico. $4OO has been paid | for a single butterfly whose capture
 was a matter of years
 Ernest Thompson Seton writes on
 "Blazes and Indian Signs" and tells of
 the universal language of ax marks.
 twisted grass. and hacked trees, by which Indians. trappcrs, and surveyors,
 may wander safely through great for est tracts.
 The Worlds Work for April. 1 The controversy over the manage ment of the Equitable Life Assurance Society Is the text of the financial ar ticle in the April number of the Worlds Work. In How May We Insure Our lnsu"ance?" an analysis of the situ- ation IS given from the view points of the company's organization. it's re- !