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BOTANICAL 
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NoraBLeE AMERICAN Homes—‘Pembroke,” the Estate of Mrs. Charles Wheeler, Bryn Mawr, 
Pennsylvania 
FASHIONS IN WALL COVERINGS 
How A PENNSYLVANIA FARMHOUSE WAS TRANSFORMED INTO A BEAUTIFUL DWELLING. 
By Francis Durando Nichols 
A Group oF CALIFORNIA BUNGALOWS: Well Adapted for Eastern Requirements. 
By Paul Thurston 384 
THE Use OF THE AUTOMOBILE IN TOWN OR COUNTRY By Stanley Yale Beach 391 
THE ANIMALS OF YELLOWSTONE PARK By Katherine Louise Smith 392 
THE VALUE OF SUMMER MULCH By Ida D. Bennett 395 
Tue GANTLEY House, AT ATHENS, NEW YORK By Elizabeth L. Gebhard 396 
THE PRESERVATION OF WILD FLOWERS IN THE UNITED STATES By Mary L. Riley 399 
IMPROVISED FURNITURE AT LITTLE Cost Mabel Tuke Priestman 401 
Op Time WALL PAPeErs By Mary H. Northend 403 
THE VERANDA By Ethel Swan 406 
June Work Among the Flowers. The Flower Garden in the Temporary Home 
The Future of American Agriculture. New Books. 
Paint Progress. 
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1906 
Published Monthly by Munn & Company, Office of the "Scientific American," 361 Broadway, New York 
[Copyright, 1906, by Munn & Company. Entered as second-class matter, June 15, 1905, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879] 
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