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It embodies the results of actual experience and it is intended to be workable in every detail."--_Providence Journal._ NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE. By W. S. Harwood and Luther Burbank. An Authoritative Account of the Work of Luther Burbank. With 48 full-page half-tone plates. 12mo. Cloth, 75 cents. Mr. Burbank has produced more new forms of plant life than any other man who has ever lived. These have been either for the adornment of the world, such as new and improved flowers, or for the enrichment of the world, such as new and improved fruits, nuts, vegetables, grasses, trees and the like. This volume describes his life and work in detail, presenting a clear statement of his methods, showing how others may follow the same lines, and introducing much never before made public. "Luther Burbank is unquestionably the greatest student of human life and philosophy of living things in America, if not in the world."--_S. H. Comings, Cor. Sec. American League of Industrial Education._ A WOMAN'S HARDY GARDEN. By Helena Rutherfurd Ely. Superbly illustrated with 49 full-page half-tone engravings from photographs by Prof. C. F. Chandler. 12mo. Cloth. "Mrs. Ely is the wisest and most winsome teacher of the fascinating art of gardening that we have met in modern print. * * * A book to be welcomed with enthusiasm."--_New York Tribune._ "Let us sigh with gratitude and read the volume with delight. For here it all is: What we should plant, and when we should plant it: how to care for it after it is planted and growing; what to do if it does not grow and blossom; what will blossom, and when it will blossom, and what the blossom will be. It is full of garden lore; of the spirit of happy out-door life. A good and wholesome book."--_The Dial._ HERETOFORE PUBLISHED AT $1.50 BOOKS BY JACK LONDON 12 MO., CLOTH, 75 CENTS EACH, POSTPAID THE CALL OF THE WILD: With illustrations by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull. Decorated by Charles Edward Hooper. "A big story in sober English, and with thorough art in the construction ... a wonderfully perfect bit of work. The dog adventures are as exciting as any man's exploits could be, and Mr. London's workmanship is wholly satisfying."--_The New York Sun._ THE SEA WOLF: Illustrated by W. J. Aylward. "This story surely has the pure
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