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CONTENTS FOR JULY, 1910 



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Cover Design By M. R. Rahming 



Statuary in the Center of a Pool Surrounded by a Group of Spurting Fountains 



Frontispiece 



The Garden Fountain By Ralph de Martin 255 



Furniture for the Home — Porch Furniture for the Home. . . .By Esther Singleton 21^9 



A House Built for Mr. J. W. Buhlert, at Wenham Mass By Mary H. Northend 262 



The Handicraftsman — An Amateur's Birdhouse By Sally Field Stevens 264 



The Art of Fireless Cooking By Monica Bastin 265 



What the Motor Vehicle is Doing for the Farmer By Walter Langford 267 



Among the Rhododendrons and the Ferns 270 



Yama-no-uchi and its Trout By Carlyle Ellis 271 



The Finest Collection of Antique Watches in the World. . .By Charles A. Brassier 275 



Some Houses at Meadowdale, Bronxville, New York By Paul Thurston 278 



Decorations and Furnishings for the Home — V. A Talk on Flower Holders, 



By Alice M. Kellogg 282 



"Fouracre," the Summer Home of the Late A. J. Cassatt, At Bar Harbor, Maine, 



By Barr Ferree 284 



Garden Notes By Charles Downing Lay 289 



Timing the Rapidity of the Leading Traveling Bean Shoot. . .By S. Leonard Bastin 290 



Ornamental Bedding Plants for Hedges By Ida D. Bennett 291 



Garden Competition for 1910 American Homes and Gardens for August 



New Books Correspondence 



Canning and Preserving Fruits; Hints for the Housewife. 



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