XV111 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



May, 1913 





For Windows 

 and Piazzas 



OST practical and substan- 

 tial combination of Blind 

 and Awning yet devised. 

 Far more sightly and dura- 

 ble than fabric awnings. 

 Very easily operated 

 Slats open and close to 

 admit air, yet exclude 

 sun rays. Can be pulled 

 up out of sight, if desired. 



For Illustrated Booklet 

 Specify " Venetian 5 " 



Jas. G.Wilson Mfg. Co. 



5 West 29th St., New York 





Patentee and Manufacturer 

 of Inside and Outside Vene- 

 tians, Porch, Piazza and Ve- 

 randa Venetians, Rolling 

 Partitions, Rolling S t e e ' 

 Shutters, Hygienic Wai d- 

 robes, Wood Block Floors. 



Make the sunny rooms 

 as cool and restful as the 

 northern or vine-covered 

 side of your house — put 



Burlington 



Venetian Blinds 



on your windows. You will 

 be agreeably surprised at the 

 results — comfort and cool 

 restfulness will be yours. 



Burlington Venetian Blinds 

 are easy to adjust. They can 

 be regulated at an angle that 

 will keep out the ray3 of a 

 blistering hot sun, and at the 

 same time you may enjoy the 

 ventilation they afford. 



A house in the summer- 

 time without Burlington 

 Venetian Blinds is like a 

 yard without trees. 



Write for 

 Illustrated Book 



interesting story in pictures 

 and words. 



Burlington Venetian Blind Co. 

 339 Lake St.. Burlingten, Vt. 



Keep Your Buildings Dry 



There are over two hundred water- proof and damp-proof materials on 

 the market, making all manner of extravagant claims. 

 DON'T BE MISLED 



For fifteen years my connection with waterproofing problems has forced 

 me to study the value of materials and the proper use of same. 



Some of the money I have expended to find out, may result in asavingto 

 you if you will correspond with me on all damp-proofing or water-proofing 

 problems, either above or below gTound. Treatment of exterior stucco. 

 Wear-proof and dust-proof cement floors. Send for descriptive literature. 



NEAL FARNHAM, C. E., 211 E. 41st St., New York City 



STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT 



of American Homes and Gardens, published monthly at New York. 

 N. Y.. required by the Act of August 24. 1912. 



Editor. Gardner C. Teall, post-office address 361 Broadway. New York, 

 N. Y. 



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 New York, N. Y. 



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 Broadway. New York. N. Y. 



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THE PIERPONT MORGAN COL- 

 LECTION OF WATCHES 



APART from two collections, both of 

 which will eventually be included in 

 French museums, the J. Pierpont Mor- 

 gan's collection of early watches ranks 

 as perhaps the most important in private 

 hands. It is made up of several other col- 

 lections, more particularly the Hilton 

 Price and the Marfels, whilst single speci- 

 mens have been secured in England and 

 abroad on the very rare occasions that 

 such things come into the market. A 

 catalogue, limited to fifteen samples on 

 pure vellum, twenty on Japanese vellum, 

 and forty-five on hand-made paper, has 

 been printed, after researches extending 

 over several years, by Dr. G. C. William- 

 son. There can be no question that the 

 vellum copies are among the most 

 sumptuous books ever produced in the 

 United States. The illustrations are as 

 far as possible actual facsimiles of the 

 objects, and are executed in every in- 

 stance with actual metal, the gold and 

 silver leaf being tooled with agate points 

 and impressed with very small specially 

 cut dies. The imitation of the Limoges 

 enamel effect is especially remarkable. 



With early watches, as with illumi- 

 nated manuscripts, each article is unique, 

 and in many cases, for reasons which sug- 

 gest themselves, very little is discover- 

 able as to their actual history beyond 

 their first or earliest owners. Dr. Will- 

 iamson therefore has had to devote him- 

 self to investigating the careers of the 

 various makers, English, French and Ger- 

 man, and his efforts in this direction 

 render his catalogue an encyclopaedia of 

 European watch-makers and making, for 

 it is full of minute and exhaustive details 

 never before printed. 



A LITTLE GARDEN OF HERBS 



JUST how much genuine delight, to say 

 nothing of a wealth of useful knowledge, 

 can be got from growing a little garden of 

 herbs no one will ever know until they 

 have tried it for themselves. "Of the earth 

 earthy," and inspired by merely gastronomic 

 motives you begin by planting only thyme 

 and parsley and sage — a trio of pot-herbs 

 always welcome in the kitchen, if the cook 

 has been properly trained in time-honored 

 ways of preparing soups and meats. Hav- 

 ing- done this you begin to remember the 

 delicious scent that used to exhale, pene- 

 trating but delicate, from your grandmoth- 

 er's clothes-presses and chests when they 

 were opened and you sow lavender and 

 rosemary. By this time you have begun to 

 feel a touch of the collectors' mania and 

 you plunge into borage and sorrel, sweet 

 basil and saffron and a dozen more so that 

 before you get through you have grown 

 enough "simples" to supply a whole regi- 

 ment of old crones. Incidentally, you have 

 doubtless made the worshipful acquaintance 

 of sundry of the Caroline herbalists — we 

 speak of the Caroline Divines, so why not 

 Caroline Herbalists ? They look exactly 

 alike. This honorable company, living in 

 Seventeenth Century calf tomes, with their 

 pictures in full-bottomed wigs opposite the 

 title-pages is not to be sneezed at. What 

 with their ponderous aid and the experi- 

 ence you will have gained by the end of 

 the season, you will also have got some- 

 thing else unconsciously. You will have 

 reached the spirit of the garden, have felt 

 some of the mysticism and subtle sentiment 

 that ever lurk in its atmosphere. 



f J^% f^AN you appreciate 

 u^>-Aj the charm of play- 



ing the world's finest 

 music on a magnificent piano 

 without the labor or drudgery 

 of years of practice or study— 



THE 



Kranich & Bach 

 Player-Piano 



enables you to do this with 

 the technique and expres- 

 sion of the virtuoso. 



This marvelous instrument is 

 built completely in one factory. 

 Its playing-mechanism is made ex- 

 pressly and exclusively by Kranich 

 & Bach for Kranich & Bach 

 Pianos, and is not found in any 

 other Player-Piano in the World. 



m Sold on Convenient Monthly Terms 

 An exquisite catalog and amus- 

 ing storiette free on request. 



Kranich £s? Bach 



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