February, 1911 
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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
THE REAL ESTATE MART 
og to the constantly increasing number of in- 
quiries received from our readers, regarding subur- 
ban and country property, the publishers have de- 
cided, in order to be of greater assistance to their sub- 
scribers, to open a department of real estate. 
This new department will be entitled ““The Real Estate 
Mart,” and will embrace everything in the buying, selling 
and renting of all classes of real estate, including suburban 
properties, country estates and farm lands. It will be a 
valuable guide—a real “directory,” and will list property, 
reproduce photographs and give detailed particulars. 
“The Real Estate Mart” will be a money-maker for the 
real estate dealer, for the owner and the agent who are 
shrewd enough to realize its possibilities. The superb illus- 
trations of American homes and estates of all kinds attract 
just the class of readers that are desirable for prospective 
purchasers of real estate. 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS is eagerly consulted by 
intending home-owners as well as by real estate dealers. 
The letter sent to the Editor by Grant Parish speaks for 
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itself. 
December 21, 1910. 
Editor AMERICAN Homes AND GArvENS, New York. 
My Dear Sir: 
It is sure a delight for an old experienced journalist to be able 
to read a periodical of such profound merit as AMERICAN HOMES 
AND GARDENS, both as to its text and illustrations, and as the 
magnificent exponent of country homes and landscape gardening 
in America. 
Being particularly interested in the international real estate 
proposition, it is but natural that I read and observe all publica- 
tions of note coming under that class of literature. So appre- 
ciative am I| of the high standard of AMERICAN Homes AND Gar- 
DENS that I recently purchased all of the back numbers of this 
publication and have had them bound for the sole purpose of use 
as a library of reference for my office which I use not only for 
my pleasure in reading, but as a valuable asset in the conduct 
of my business, particularly for the matchless usefulness it gives 
my clients, who come from the four corners of the world. 
Yours very truly, 
(Signed) GRANT PARISH. 
ANNUAL HORTICULTURAL NUMBER 
HE readers of AMERICAN HoMEs AND GARDENS will 
Fi be glad, no doubt, to know that in March we shall is- 
sue our Annual Horticultural Number. 
Our readers should all be interested in this month’s issue, 
as it appears at the festive season of the spring and under- 
takes to meet those requests of our subscribers which have 
been expressed in many communications to the Editor for 
information as to the best methods of developing and beau- 
tifying the home grounds. 
The issue will be full of helpful and timely suggestions 
in response to many inquiries that refer to plans for spring 
planting, and many new and interesting subjects will be 
taken up by experts who have devoted their time and their 
best efforts to the work. ‘The aim will be to cover all in- 
terests in the different fields which atfect the surroundings 
of a home, and, if this is realized, the publishers will feel 
that they have aided in securing a better and more beauti- 
ful America. 
ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE EXHIBITIONS 
HE twenty-sixth annual exhibition of the Architectural 
ah League will be held in the building of the Fine Arts 
Society, from January 29th to February 18th, in- 
clusive. 
The annual dinner of the time-honored League will be 
given on Friday evening, January 27th, and on the fol- 
lowing afternoon a reception will be tendered by the mem- 
bers to their friends. 
The exhibition will be illustrative of architecture and 
the allied arts. It will consist of drawings and models of 
proposed or executed work in structural, decorative and 
landscape architecture; sketches and finished examples of 
decorative painting; sketches, models and finished examples 
of decorative and monumental sculpture; drawings and 
models of work in the decorative arts; and photographs of 
executed work in any of the above branches. 
The committee has extended an invitation to all the mem- 
bers of the profession of architecture and the allied arts 
to send drawings with models and cartoons illustrating in 
combination the architectural, sculptural and decorative 
scheme of a single important work. 
It is to be hoped that the committee will see the wisdom 
of paying more attention to the class of domestic archi- 
tecture which may be submitted for hanging this year than 
they have during the past few years, and by showing a 
consideration for this class of work, add a greater in- 
terest to the exhibition from the layman’s point of view 
than could possibly be accomplished in any other way. 
