AMERICAN 



HOMES AND GARDENS 





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CONTENTS FOR NOVEMBER, 1906 



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A California Road 282 



Monthly Comment 284 



Notable American Homes — The House of James H. Proctor, Esq., Hamilton, Massa- 

 chusetts By Ban Fence 285 



The Old-Fashioned Flower-Garden of M. H. Wagar, Esq., Montclair, New Jersey. . 289 



A Colonial House By Francis Durando Nichols 291 



An Autumn Scene in Kentucky 294 



Some Well-Designed Suburban Houses By Paul Thurston 296 



Soils and Their Nutrition 299 



Principles of Home Decoration — VII. — The Art of Placing Furniture. 



By Joy Wheeler Dow 300 



Humus and Air and Their Value 303 



The Dorothy Q House By Mary Caroline Crawford 304 



A Woman's Farm in England By Amelia Roy 307 



"Glenn Elsinore," a New England Garden By Ella M. Boult 310 



A California Onion Seed Farm By Walter Garrison 313 



A Study of Street-Trees By E. P. Powell 3 1 6 



Domes rii' Art Pottery and Its Manufacture By Jane Stannard Johnson 317 



Eating with Our Eyes By Day Alien Willey 32* 1 



November Work in the Garden. 

 Elements of House Hygiene. 



Winter Protection for the Garden. 

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