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CeaNPPeEsN TS FeO RR MAY, 1909 
‘“FERNBROOK”’: The Drive to the House and the Entrance Porch 
THE GARDEN IN YouR TowN—Prize Competition 
Homes oF AMERICAN ArtTIsts—‘‘Fernbrook,” the Summer Home of ‘Thomas Shields 
Clarke, Lenox, Massachusetts By Barr Ferree 
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR DoMESTIC VENTILATION By Thaleon Blake, C.E. 
A SMALL Brick House at Concorp, MASSACHUSETTS By Charles Chauncey 
TLoweER-Box BEAuTY By F. Maude Smith 
Tue Porcy SitTinc-Room By Ralph de Martin 
CREATING A SMALL COUNTRY HOME By E. P. Powell 
Historic MANSIONS OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK RIVER—‘‘Sabine Hall,’ one of the famous 
Carter Homesteads in Virginia By Edith Dabney 
WATERCRESS CULTURE IN FRANCE By Jacques Boyer 
A House BuittT For J. L. Jounson. Esa., ar HAcKENSAcK, NEW JERSEY. 
By Paul Thurston 
ANTS AND BEEs As PETs By Percy Collins 
“PeNLLYN House,” THE RESIDENCE OF ARTHUR Kinc Woop, Esa., ARDSLEY-ON-HUDSON, 
New YORK By Francis Durando Nichols 
GARDEN Nores—The Best Twenty Annuals for the Flower Garden 
CORRESPONDENCE: 
PROBLEMS IN HOME FURNISHING By Alice M. Kellogg 
GARDEN Work ABouUT THE HOME By Charles Downing Lay 
Making of a Country Home: III. Fruits for the Small Home Orchard. 
The Water Supply of the Country Home. 
The Hen House. New Books. 
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