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Montuity CoMMENT—The Campaign against the House-fly 
Homes OF AMERICAN ARTISTS—‘‘Red Oaks,” the Summer Home of John M. Carrere, Esgq., 
White Plains, New York By Barr Ferree 
Tue WiLp MusHrooms By Benjamin VW. Douglass 
A RECLAIMED DWELLING—How a Farmhouse at Stokes Pogis, Villa Nova, Pennsylvania, Was 
Reclaimed and Transformed into a Habitable Dwelling By Paul Thurston 
CURTAINS FOR THE SUMMER HOME By Gertrude M. Walbran 
THE HEALTHIEST House IN THE WoRLD..... By W. A. Du Puy 
TRIMMING OLD TREES By E. P. Powell 
THE GARDEN GATE By Ralph de Martin 
Forest CONSERVATION AT BILTMORE By Day Allen Willey 
SMALL Houses oF SMALL Cost—From $3,500 to $4,500....By Francis Durando Nichols 
“GLENBROOK,” A NATURALISTIC GARDEN DESIGNED BY ITS OWNER By Adam Snyder 
“THe LINDENS,” THE SUMMER HomME oF E. S. WILLIAMS, Esa., ArT NAHANT, MAssAcHu- 
By Charles Chauncey 
Tue PRoFITABLE HousE—A House FOR A GUARANTEED Cost....By Joy Wheeler Dow 
GARDEN NOTES 
CORRESPONDENCE: 
PROBLEMS IN HoME FURNISHING By Alice M. Kellogg 
GARDEN Work AsBouT THE HOME By Charles Downing Lay 
Making a Country Home: V. The Country Home Cow. 
Insect Enemies of the Garden. 
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