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SomE Goop PLANTING ABOUT THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE Frontispiece 
Tue SmMai House oF To-pay By Francis Durando Nichols 159 
Tue TasLreE—Flower Arrangements By Edith Haviland 164 
SALAD AT ANY TIME OF THE YEAR By S. Leonard Bastin 166 
IcE CREAM As A HEALTH Foop 167 
HANDICRAFTSMAN—Designing a Bilateral Stencil 168 
Home-BuILT ORNAMENTAL FLOWER URN 169 
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THe Mopbern KITCHEN By George E. Walsh 172 
Dark BLUE STAFFORDSHIRE—The Dr. Snytax Poem and the Syntax Plates, 
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BUNGALOWS OF INTERESTING TYPE By Robert Prescott 179 
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Tue Moror Car ror THE MAN or Moperate MEANS By Stanley Yale Beach 188 
THE INEXPENSIVE SMALL GARAGE By H. P. Wilkin 190 
Two New ENGLAND Houses By Paul Thurston 193 
SPRAYING THE APPLE ORCHARD By Benjamin W. Douglass 197 
PLANNING A SEASHORE GARDEN By Martha Haskell Clark 200 
PLANNING SMALL COUNTRY PLACES By Charles Downing Lay 202 
A GARDEN MINIATURE ARBOR By George A. Avery 204 
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