AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
| Cottage 
Designs 
HESE books offer to architects, builders, 
homeseekers and investors by far the 
most complete collection of plans ever 
brought out, while the price is so low as to 
place them within the reach of all who have 
an interest in the building of homes. The 
designs are compiled with a view to represent- 
ing all grades of cost, from the simplest types 
of cottages, as illustrated in the first series, to 
the comparatively elaborate structures reaching 
to $10,000 or more, in cost, treated in the 
fourth series, so that examples are given cever- 
ing nearly every requirement, with respect to 
cost, in inexpensive homes. 
No. 1. Cottage Designs 
with Constructive Details 
Aseries of twenty-five designs of cottages, 
most of which have been erected, ranging in 
cost from $600 to $1,500; together with details 
of interior and exterior finish, all drawn to 
convenient scale, and accompanied by brief 
specifications. Illustrated with 53 full-page 
plates of floor plans, elevations and details. 
No. 2. Low Cost Houses 
with Constructive Details 
Embracing upward of twenty-five selected 
designs of cottages originally costing from 
$1,000 to $3,000, accompanied with elevations, 
floor plans and details of construction, all drawn 
to scale, together with brief descriptions and, 
in many instances, full specifications and 
detailed estimates of cost. Illustrated by 61 
full-page plates of floor plans, elevations and 
details. 
No. 3. Modern Dwellings 
with Constructive Details 
A selection of twenty designs of artistic 
suburban dwellings erected in various parts of 
the country, at costs ranging from $2,300 
to $7,000; embracing floor plans, elevations 
and constructive details, showing interior and 
exterior finish, and drawn to scale, together 
with extracts from the specifications. Illus- 
trated by means of half-tone reproductions, 
from photographs of the completed structures, 
and 61 full-page plates, of floor plans, eleva- 
tions and details. 
No. 4. Suburban Homes 
with Constructive Details 
Comprising twenty selected designs of attrac- 
tive suburban homes, ranging in cost from 
about $3,000 upward; embracing floor plans, 
elevations and constructive details, showing 
interior and exterior finish, all drawn to scale, 
together with extracts from the specifications. 
Illustrated by means of half-tone reproductions 
from photographs of the completed structures, 
and 75 full-page plates of plans, elevations 
and details. 
One Dollar Each, Postpaid 
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SIMPLE TEXT-BOOK telling in a 
series of plain and simple answers to 
questions all about the various orders as 
well as the general principles of construction. 
The book contains 92 pages, printed on heavy 
cream plate paper and illustrated by 150 engrav- 
ings, amongst which are illustrations of various 
historic buildings. The book is 12mo in size, 
and is attractively bound in cloth. 
PRICE FIFTY CENTS, POSTPAID 
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November, 1909 
soon as ripe and planted at once or put in 
boxes with layers of moist sand until spring, 
when they are planted in the seed-bed. Large 
edible seeds are better treated in this way, 
because they can then be protected from 
squirrels and mice, which may find seeds 
planted in the ground. 
It would not be a bad idea to plant hick- 
ories and oaks in pots until they are big 
enough to set out in their permanent positions, 
because their long tap root makes them hard 
to transplant. 
Some seeds, those of the thorn, for example, 
should be freed of the pulp and washed, and 
even then they do not germinate until the 
second year after planting. 
Grapes are easily grown from cuttings, 
which should be made now and buried until 
spring, as described last month for scions, 
when they can be planted out in rows. Each 
cutting should have two buds or eyes, and 
should be of wood which ripened a year ago. 
Cuttings of privet, currant, buckthorn, wil- 
low, poplar, etc., can be made in the same 
way. 
Layering is the easiest way of all to propa- 
gate plants. A layer is a branch which has 
rested on the ground and has taken root at 
the point of contact. 
Honeysuckle will layer without being 
urged, Rosa Wichuraiana without difficulty, 
if the branch be covered with a little earth, 
but for most things it is better to make a 
small cut on the under side of the branch 
where it will touch the ground, and then peg 
it down and cover the cut place with three or 
four inches of earth. After six months or a 
year the branch should be well rooted and can 
be removed from the parent plant. 
Layering is easily done with roses, forsythias, 
vines, and, in fact, most shrubs. 
Some shrubs, like the cornel, increase by 
underground suckers or stolons; these can be 
dug up and will soon make good plants. 
Spireas, Indian currant, lilacs, sassafras, black 
alder, clethra, and many others can be in- 
creased rapidly in this way. 
All native plants can be bought of col- 
lectors, if one lacks opportunities to collect 
them for one’s self. A list of responsible col- - 
lectors will be sent to those who would like it. 
A small spade and a large basket or piece of 
burlap should be invariably carried on any 
drive in the woods. Then one is ready to dig 
up anything. 
THE CHINQUAPIN 
The chinquapin, or dwarf chestnut (Cas- 
tanea pumila), is, as R. P. says, a charming 
plant. It grows sometimes forty-five feet 
high, but bears delicious, small, sweet nuts 
when three or four years old. It is more like 
a shrub than a tree, and when planted thickly 
forms miniature shady groves. It should be 
grown for the sake of its nuts wherever there 
is too little room for the chestnut tree. 
PLANTING THE FLOWER GARDEN 
Arranging the plants in a flower-garden 
always takes much thought; more when the 
garden is small and there are a great many 
plants to grow. There is always a conflict 
between one’s desire to have it always full of 
flowers and one’s inability to give up such 
things as peonies and iris. It is, of course, 
impossible to have any garden a mass of 
flowers throughout the summer. ‘The peo- 
nies and iris last but a short time, and when 
they are past, that part of the garden is with- 
out flowers for the rest of the season. 
With annuals there is the same trouble. 
They do not bloom until late June or July, 
and how can the place where asters are grow- 
ing, for instance, be made to produce flowers 
before the asters? 
The only way out of the difficulty seems to 
be to have the annuals in separate small beds, 
