August, 1909 
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American Domes and Gardens covers a wide scope; it deals with 
house building from the design and 
construction of modest cottages on tiny lots to the building of mansions on large 
eStates. All degrees of gardening, from laying out a landscape to the planting of a 
window-box, are dealt with. Practical questions of water supply, of sanitation, or 
of the arrangement of the kitchen receive equal treatment with draping of windows 
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American Domes and Gardens is Peouttaly printed. The year’s 
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sand engravings, as full of detail and finish as actual photographs. They depict some 
of the old and historic mansions of America, and the most beautiful of gardens or of 
natural scenery. The following list of a few of the pnncipal practical articles which 
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of subject: 
Notable American Homes (12 descriptive 
articles) The Rose as a Summer Bedder 
—Private Automobile Garages—Leaded 
Glass Windows—Etching on Copper 
and Brass—Problems in House Furn- 
ishing (12 papers)—Garden Work About 
the Home(12 papers)—Indoor Bulb Cul- 
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—Rugs from the Scrap Bag—Water 
Parks—Old-Time Lights— Latches and 
Knockers—The Sun Room—Japanese 
Gardens in America— Sun-Dials — 
Heating and Lighting with Alcohol— 
Spring Houses Old and New—Plan- 
ning a Country Home—The House 
Roof and Its Garden—The Plant and 
the Season— Garden Streams and 
Bridges—Stencil Work in Home Dec- 
oration—Bungalows (12 articles)—Scien- 
tific Poultry Breeding. 
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