June, 1906 AMERICAN HOMES 
AND GARDENS 
419 
YOU take an interest in your home; 
YOU want to know how that home can 
be improved at little cost, how it can 
be made a better, happier, brighter, 
more artistic place to live in; 
YOU have a garden and you love flow- 
ers, and you wish to make that garden 
more attractive ; 
YOU have failed as a gardener and you 
want to know why; ina word, if your 
home and its surroundings mean anything at all to you, 
YOU READ 
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Every number contains articles that 
give you just the kind of informa- 
tion you need to better your 
roundings; gives you hints that you 
can follow because they are suited 
No 
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to magazine 1s 
more beau- 
tifully illustrated, more clearly worded. 
your purse 
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The Revival of therSanDial TaTthe’ 
‘A Balarade inclaoes the Terrace, which Fill de Ceneral Sones 
2—The See Dial inthe Bay of the Upper Terrace of the Carden 
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SOME OF THE ARTICLES WHICH WILL APPEAR DURING THE YEAR 1906 ARE THE FOLLOWING 
Inexpensive Country Homes (with plans) 
Interior Decoration 
How Curtains May Be Made at Home 
How to Make Pottery at Home 
How Furniture May Be Covered at Home 
How the Amateur May Decorate the Room 
with Home-made Stencils 
How to Preserve Wild Flowers 
Pow 4 Water Garden May Be Laid Out and 
ult 
How the House of a Bygone Day May Be Re- 
modeled and Converted into a Modern 
ome 
How To Do Copper and Brass Repousse 
Work 
How to Rehabilitate Worthless, 
Farms with $1000 or Less 
The Use of Statuary for Garden Decoration 
The Kitchen and How it Should Be Planned 
Historical Places in America 
The Entrance to a Country Place 
The House of the Colonial Period 
Sun Dials 
Modern Dahlias 
Gateways to Estates 
Nature Study and Its Effect on the Home 
Run-down 
Besides there will be descriptions—handsomely illustrated descriptions, accompanied by 
Old Time Wall Paper 
Something Concerning Driveways 
My Garden Without Flowers 
A Seventeenth Century Homestead 
Wild Animals in Captivity 
How a Pennsylvania Farmhouse was Trans- 
formed Into a Beautiful Dwelling 
Electricity in the Home for Cooking, Ironing, 
Heating, etc. 
Life on an Olive Ranch 
A Neglected Opportunity—the 
Rapid Growth of Birds 
Life on Great Vineyards 
House Roof 
plans—of houses with and without gardens, 
houses of stone and wood, houses for the very rich man and for the man with moderate means. 
In every number will be found complete descriptions of actually built houses ranging in price from $2000 to $6000, 
together with photographs of exterior and interior and architects’ plans. 
EACH NUMBER HAS A COVER PRINTED IN COLORS 
25 CENTS A COPY 
$3.00 A YEAR 
The Scientific American and American Homes 
and Gardens will be sent to one address for the 
reduced subscription price of $5.00 A YEAR 
MUNN & COMPANY, Publishers 
361 Broadway, New York 
