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THE FALL PLANTING NUMBER 
CTOBER is the month when the garden maker will 
find himself busied with the planting of perennials and 
with rearranging the hardy border. There will be bulbs to 
set out too, for the garden in early Springtime must be 
planned now as well as next season’s Summer garden. 
HE October number of AMERICAN HoMEs AND GAR- 
| a will be of great interest and value to the maker of 
the home garden, as it will be the annual Fall Planting 
Number, and although other features will by no means be 
neglected, especial emphasis will be placed upon gardening 
subjects in the October contents. The subject of ‘Fall 
Planting for the Summer Flower Garden” will be ade- 
quately treated in a handsomely illustrated article, forming 
a valuable supplement to the article on Spring planting 
which appeared in the annual gardening number of AMER- 
IcAN Homes AND GarpeEns for March, 1912. ‘The gar- 
den maker not only wishes, as a general thing, to know how 
the flowers raised from various seeds will look, but quite 
as much desires to gain some conception of the grouped 
appearance of planting efforts when the garden will have 
reached its maturity. For this reason the reproduction of 
photographs that have been chosen to illustrate the article 
on Fall planting for the Summer garden have been selected 
with the purpose in view of giving the home garden-maker 
an adequate idea of the landscape-in-little effects of judic- 
ious planting, in the belief that lovely though flowers may 
be in themselves, and charming though wild-growing things 
may appear in their natural confusion, that garden culti- 
vated flowers should invariably be placed in accordance 
with a plan that will enable them to enhance the beauty of 
any premises by an orderly relationship thereto. 
ULBS for Fall planting will be the subject of a second 
authoritative article in the October number, contributed 
by one of the foremost writers on garden subjects in Amer- 
ica. This will be exquisitely illustrated from photographs 
of some of the most beautiful bulb gardens in America. 
The home garden-maker who reads this article will be cer- 
tain to find therein reliable information concerning what, 
when, where, and how to plant Spring flowering bulbs that 
may be set out in October. 
HE article on “Brick Houses” by Robert H. Van 
Court will concern itself with brick as a suitable and 
attractive material for the building of a house large or 
small, and also will discuss the use of brick in connection 
with other building materials. 
ARY H. NORTHEND will contribute to the Octo- 
ber number an illustrated description of a most at- 
tractive house in Reading, Massachusetts. ‘This will be 
accompanied by floor plans of the first and second stories. 
NE of the oldest and most historic houses in Phila- 
delphia, ““Mount Pleasant on the Schuylkill,” will be 
described by Harold Donaldson Eberlein and illustrated 
by excellent photographs both of the exterior and of the 
interior of this interesting house. The double-page fea- 
ture for October will consist of a collection of photographic 
reproductions of Pergolas in American gardens. These 
have been carefully selected from a country-wide range of 
trellis as being typical of the best garden art of this sort. 
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EAUTIFUL California homes have always an interest 
for the Eastern as well as for the Western reader, and 
a delightful hillside house will be described in the October 
number, accompanied by floor plan and terrace plan and 
by exterior and interior photographs. 
HEASANT-RAISING is coming to be both a profit- 
able and an interesting phase of country life develop- 
ment, and with this in mind the Editor has commissioned 
Mr. E. IJ. Farrington to prepare for the October number 
of AMERICAN HoMEs AND GARDENS an illustrated article 
on this subject. The department ‘Within the House” will 
contain an article by Harry Martin Yeomans, entitled 
“Why Colonial” and the other departments, ‘“‘Around the 
Garden” and “Helps to the Housewife,” will, as usual, be 
of value and interest to the home-maker, who will find many 
other contributions throughout the pages of the Fall Plant- 
ing Number fully worth while reading for its constructive 
worth. 
SUMMER CHARITY 
HERE is something about the thought of freezing to 
death that makes the average human being give more 
attention to charitable deeds in Winter time than in Sum- 
mer, when nature seems, to the careless thinker, to be taking 
upon her own shoulders, more or less, the burdens of our 
brother’s need. As the editor sits in his comfortable 
sanctum, cooled by the current of air industriously stirred 
by the indefatigable electric fan (sensibly placed to assist 
ventilation from open windows and yet without draughts 
which should be avoided even when the mercury mounts 
high in the thermometer tube), he cannot help thinking of 
the poor and the sick caught in the congestion of city life 
without relief from the excessive heat of some of the torrid 
days for which our large cities are noted. The Editor 
wonders if it would not be one of the truest acts of kind- 
ness for those in a position to do so to give electric fans 
to cheer the days of those invalids who cannot indulge in 
even so small a luxury. Think what that would mean to 
one shut in through the September days! ‘The suggestion 
need not be thought impractical when one takes into con- 
sideration the fact that, nowadays, nearly all city flats are 
fitted with electric connections. Indeed, home aid societies 
and private charitable clubs might, to advantage, have elec- 
tric fans to lend in emergency cases, which thus would also 
serve to bring comfort to many in rotation. 
COUNTRYS Ss Clit FOR HEALTH 
S life more healthful in the city or the country? On this 
often-asked question bulletin 109 of the census bureau 
sheds some light, says an editorial writer in the Chicago 
Record-Herald. It shows that in 1910, for the registra- 
tion area of the United States, the death rate per 1,000 
population for the cities was 15.9, while for the rural re- 
gions it was 13.4. This, The Medical Review of Reviews 
says, “is indicative of the lessened mortality rate in the 
rural parts of the registration states as opposed to the 
urban.” The bulletin’s figures show striking differences in 
city and country-death rates from certain diseases, and on 
the whole, that chances of sanity, health and longevity are 
greater in the country than in the cities. 
