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. SEP 29 1907 



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Cows Drinking at the Brookside at Eventide . r^^^^: 362 



Monthly Comment 364 



Notable American Homes — "Millbrook Farm," the Country Home of J. Franklin McFad- 



den, Esq., Haverford, Pennsylvania By Barr Fcrree 365 



Heating the House 371 



Gardening Without Soil By S. Leonard Bastiu 372 



Historic Mansions of the James River. — IL "Shirley," the Ancestral Home of the 



Carters By Francis Diirando Nichols 375 



Stenciling the Apple , By Adrian Il'eimas 380 



The Nineteenth Century Bedroom By Esther Siirrlcion 382 



Small American Homes By Paul Tluirston 386 



How TO Tour in an i\uTOMOBiLE By Harry B. Haines 391 



Port Sunlight, a Significant English Experiment in Village Building. 



By Mabel Take Priest man 395 



The Suburban Pear Tree. Garden Work for October. 



The Sanitation of the Country House. New Books. 



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