HOME AND FLOWERS 



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COMING NIMBERS 



EAKLY PUBLICATION 



'LANDSCAPE GARDENING' 



•VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT IN EUROPE" 



A series of three or four papers by Dr. J. A. Stelner. Dr. Stelner is now abroad collecting material 

 for this series. 



"FLOWERS IN HISTORY" 



A series of articles— really stories— of dramatic incidents in history wherein trees and flowers 

 have been the central facts. From the time of the Wars of the Roses in England to the day of the 

 Charter Oak in Connecticut, flowers and trees have figured in many great events in hunian life 

 and development. This series will be dramatically told and handsomely Illustrated. The first 

 article will be entitled, "The Triljute of Roses," and will be the story of the thirteenth century 

 in France. The story of the Primrose Lieagne and of How The Hague Got Its IVame will be 

 among the other articles in this series. 



"HOW THE ORIENT CAN TEACH US BEAUTY" 



The beautiful home life and love of nature of the Oriental people will be shown in a series of 

 articles. The first one, on the -'Home liife of the Japanese Womeni," from the pen of Onoto 

 Watanna, the famous young Japanese authoress, appeai-ed in November. Others will be con- 

 tributed by W. E.Johnson, well known to the readers of Home and FiiOWERS, whose first-hand 

 impressions of Japanese and Chinese homes will be illustrated by new and beautiful photo- 

 graphs. 



"HOUSE BUILDING FROM A NEW STANDPOINT" 



A well qualified architect will furnish articles Giving plans for model cottages built with special 

 reference in their construction to the lar:jeit possible growth of flowers, and to the best advan- 

 tage. The series aims to show thr.t the 3o:iclitlons of heat, space, arrangement and sunlight 

 which are necessary or desirable to good results with flowers, are also desirable and necessary 

 for comfort and the fullest development of home life. 



Home AND Flowers is making a specialty of good short stories, in which flowers play an 

 Important part. A number of these will appear during the year. Among the special single ar- 

 ticles for which arrangements are being made are, "Village Improvement in the Sonth, by Mrs. 

 Eugene B. Heard; The Blnff City Story, by Mayor James Glover; The Svaugel of Pictures, by 

 Caroline Leech; The Making of Arts and Crafts, by B. B. Thresher; Settlement Work in the 

 Kentucky Mountains, by Catherine Pettit; The Beautiful L.lfe of the Old South and What 

 It May Teach Us, by Cephas Shelburne. 



By A. W. Cowell. Mr. Cowell, whose practical training at Cornell University has eminently T 

 fitted him for the work of landscape gardening, will outline the fundamentals of the art, and sug"^- 4 

 gest how it may be practised upon small gardens with small means. . 



"INTERVIEWS WITH FAMOUS PEOPLE 



ON THE ESTHETIC NEEDS OF THE TIMES" 



The two interviews already published on city betterment (that with the Lord Mayor of London 

 and with Mayor Low of New Yorki will be supplemented by other Interviews secured by Harry i 

 Steele Morrison. 4- 

 Each month Home and Flowers will contain a leading feature giving an account of some 1 

 especially notable achievement in civic betterment— reports of conventions, plans for city im- 

 provement, and descriptions of public betterment features all over the country. 



"FAMOUS WOMEN OF BEAUTIFUL LIVES" 



Penplcturesof a number of famous women of history, such as Margaret Fuller, Lucretia Mott, 

 Florence Nightingale, Grace Darling, Clara Barton and others, who have been examples to 

 the world of beautiful, unselfish lives, will be presented. 



"HOME FROM A DECORATIVE STANDPOINT" 



By A. Blair Rldington. A series of four articles in which Mr. Ridlngton points out the influence 

 exerted upon individuals, particularly children, by the decorations of the rooms in which they 

 live. 



