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Pool and Steps to the Rose Terrace. Garden of W. S. Spaulding, Esq., at Prides 



Crossing, Mass Frontispiece 



The House and Garden of W. S. Spaulding, Esq., at Prides Crossing, Mass. 



By Barr Ferree 375 



A Pompeian Villa With a California Background By Horatio F. Stoll 382 



Topiary Art By J. Jennings Brown 387 



"The Rice Field" — The Residence of Mrs. Ciiarles E. Perkins, at Westwood, Mass. 



By Paul Thurston 390 



A New Sense Organ of Butterflies 394 



The Handicraftsman — Sun Dials Made at Home By A. J. Squires 395 



Decorations and Furnishings for the Home — VIII. Furnishing a Boy's Room, 



By Alice M. Kellogg 398 



The Artistic Treatment of Fireproof Houses. . .By Edith Haviland 401 



Garden Notes — Planting in the Formal Garden. By Charles Downing Lay 406 



Suburban Windbreakers By E. P. Powell 408 



Bulbs to Plant in Autumn By S. Leonard Bastin 409 



The Editor's Notebook American Homes and Gardens for November Correspondence 



New Books Birds of Passage 



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