AMERICAN 



HOMES AND GARDENS 



Price, 25 Cents. $3.00 a Year 



CONTENTS FOR OCTOBER, 1905 



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The Fountain in the Garden — " Drumthwacket " cover 



A Garden in Old Japan 220 



Monthly Comment 222 



Notable American Homes — " Drumthwacket," Princeton, New Jersey: The House and the 



Estate By Barr Ferree ii^, 



The Bungalow of A. A. Whitman, Esq 230 



" The Monastery," the House of Charles P. Searle, Esq 232 



The Residence of Francis B. Rice, Esq 234 



The Summer Home of Alfred J. Nathan, Esq 236 



The Country Home of John R. Sherman, Esq 240 



How to Lay Out a Wild Wood Garden By Leila Mechlin 243 



The Furniture of Our Forefathers By Francis Durando Nichols 246 



A Southern California Ranch By Charles F. Holder 249 



Principles of Home Decoration: III. — Dining Rooms — Good and Bad. 



By Joy Wheeler Dow 253 



Helps to Home Building: The House Garden 257 



Science for the Home: Humidity Within the House — Heating the House 258 



The Household: Furniture for Men — Cheap Baths 259 



Civic Betterment: The Business Aspect — The International Congress of Public Art 260 



The Garden: The Garden Month by Month (October) — The Bulb Planting 261 



The Observer's Note-Book: The Cheap Cottages Exhibition in England 262 



The Architect and His Charges. 

 Fifty Suggestions for the House. 

 New Books. 



Publishers' Department. 

 New Building Patents. 



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