AMERICAN 



HOMES AND GARDENS 



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A Water-side Greeting 2 ' 4 



Monthly Comment 2 1 6 



Notable American Homes — The Seaside Home of Mr. T. Jefferson Coolidge, Jr., Coolidge 



Point, Manchester, Massachusetts By Barr Ferree 217 



The Ornamental Value of Public Waters 223 



A Home in a Nutshell By Janet Macdonald 224 



Transformation of an Artistic House into an Italian Villa. 



By Francis Durando Nichols 225 



How to Preserve Cut Flowers 228 



Three Houses of Distinctive Character By Ellis Welch 229 



Originality, Old and New 233 



"Wiseacre" — The Residence of Charles L. Wise, Esq., East Orange, New Jersey 235 



The Weed-fields By B. S. Bowdish 238 



Desert-plants as a Source of Drinking-water 240 



How to Lay Out a Small Plot Successfully By Ralph Child Erskine 241 



Bulbs: How to Plant and Grow Them By Eben E. Rexford 244 



A Rival of the Stained-glass Window By Benjamin Coleham 247 



A Living Sun-dial . . . By W. A. Mount Stephen 248 



Mushroom-culture in France By Jacques Boyer 249 



Fruit and Orchard Work in October By E. P. Powell 252 



Floral October Work. 

 Fall Work in the Garden. 



The St. Bernard. 

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