. American homes and gardens. s sent out to secure morethe Survey publishedProf. Cope on theIn 1897, 1898 andVertebrate Palaeon-tologist of the Survey, was at work in thisfield bringing to light many new forms ofthe oast life of our western country. The expedition of the oast season, how-ever, was stronger and better equipped thanany heretofore sent out bv the Survev andthe gratifying success which it has achievedwill, it is hoped, be followed up bv furthervigorous collecting during the coming Sum-mer. material. In 1892,a monograph bymaterial L. Lambe, RARE COINS FOUND WHILE di
. American homes and gardens. s sent out to secure morethe Survey publishedProf. Cope on theIn 1897, 1898 andVertebrate Palaeon-tologist of the Survey, was at work in thisfield bringing to light many new forms ofthe oast life of our western country. The expedition of the oast season, how-ever, was stronger and better equipped thanany heretofore sent out bv the Survev andthe gratifying success which it has achievedwill, it is hoped, be followed up bv furthervigorous collecting during the coming Sum-mer. material. In 1892,a monograph bymaterial L. Lambe, RARE COINS FOUND WHILE digging up his garden in Mar-mery, France, a wine grower dug upa eranite vase with one hundred and twentycoins, eighteen gold coins, eighty silvercoins, and twentv-two copper coins. Someof these have the date of Charles VIII,some Louis XII, 1484, 1500, some FrancisI. 1515, and some from the time of HenryVIII and Edward VI of England. Thecoins are all rare and are considered veryvaluable. t CONCRETE POnERY AND GARDEN FURNITURE \. By RALPH C. DAVISON T I HIS book describes in detail in amost practical manner the var-ious methods of casting concretefor ornamental and useful pur-poses and covers the entire fieldof ornamental concrete work. It tellshow to make all kinds of concrete vases,ornamental flower pots, concrete pedes-tals, concrete benches, concrete fences,etc. Full practical instructions are givenfor constructing and finishing the differ-ent kinds of molds, making the wireforms or frames, selecting and mixingthe ingredients, covering the wire framesand modeling the cement mortar intoform, and casting and finishing thevarious objects. With the informationgiven in this book any handyman ornovice can make many useful and ornamental objects of cementfor the adornment of the home or garden. The author has taken forgranted that the reader knows nothing whatever about the material,and has explained each progressive step in the various operationsthroughout in detail. These direction
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