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LiLV Pond and Pergola in the Garden of Frederick P. Hill, Esq, 



Monthly Comment 



Summer Homes — Costing Upwards From Fifteen Hundred Dollars, 



By Francis Diirando Nichols 



A Bungalow at Highland Beach, New Jersey By Nicholas Durand 



The Summer Veranda By Esther Singleton 



The Summer Home of Claude Kilpatrick, Esq., at Magnolia, Massachusetts, 



By Paul Thurston 



Artistic Curtains and Portieres for the Summer Home. .By Mabel Tuke Priestman 



Testing thi: Courage of a Bobolink By Ned Dearborn 



Cultivated Chestnuts 



Lowestoft Armorial China By N. Hudson Moore 



Round a Dutch Bulb Farm By S. Leonard Baslin 



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Garden Work for May. A Marvelous Hybrid Mallow. 



How to Grow the Water Lilies. Tile in Economical Building. 



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