﻿AMERICAN 
  

  

  HOMES 
  AND 
  GARDENS 
  

  

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  CONTENTS 
  FOR 
  MAY, 
  1907 
  

  

  PAGE 
  

  

  Lily 
  Pond 
  and 
  Pergola 
  in 
  the 
  Garden 
  of 
  Frederick 
  P. 
  Hill, 
  Esq. 
  162 
  

  

  Monthly 
  Comment 
  iSa. 
  

  

  Summer 
  Homes 
  — 
  Costing 
  Upwards 
  From 
  Fifteen 
  Hundred 
  Dollars, 
  

  

  By 
  Francis 
  Durando 
  Nichols 
  165 
  

  

  A 
  Bungalow 
  at 
  Highland 
  Beach, 
  New 
  Jersey 
  By 
  Nicholas 
  Durand 
  175 
  

  

  The 
  Summer 
  Veranda 
  By 
  Esther 
  Singleton 
  180 
  

  

  The 
  Summer 
  Home 
  of 
  Claude 
  Kilpatrick, 
  Esq., 
  at 
  Magnolia, 
  Massachusetts, 
  

  

  By 
  Paid 
  Thurston 
  184 
  

  

  Artistic 
  Curtains 
  and 
  Portieres 
  for 
  the 
  Summer 
  Home. 
  .By 
  Mabel 
  Tuke 
  Priestman 
  187 
  

  

  Testing 
  the 
  Courage 
  of 
  a 
  Bobolink 
  By 
  Ned 
  Dearborn 
  190 
  

  

  Cultivated 
  Chestnuts 
  IC 
  .2 
  

  

  Lowestoft 
  Armorial 
  China 
  By 
  N. 
  Hudson 
  Moore 
  193 
  

  

  Round 
  a 
  Dutch 
  Bulb 
  Farm 
  By 
  S. 
  Leonard 
  Bastin 
  197 
  

  

  Garden 
  Work 
  for 
  May. 
  A 
  Marvelous 
  Hybrid 
  Mallow. 
  

  

  How 
  to 
  Grow 
  the 
  Water 
  Lilies. 
  Tile 
  in 
  Economical 
  Building. 
  

  

  New 
  Books. 
  

  

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  [Copyright, 
  1907, 
  by 
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