HOME AND FLOWERS 



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COMING NUMBERS 



EAI^LY PUBLICATION 



"LANDSCAPE GARDENING" 



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

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

 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 Ne'^v' York^ will be supplemented by other interviews secured by Harry 

 Steele Morrison. 



Each month Ho3Ie and FiiOWERS will contain a leading feature giving an account of some 

 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" 



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

 Florence Niglitingale, 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 Ridington. A series of four articles in which Mr. Ridington points out the influence 

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

 live. The first paper appears this month. 



"VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT IN EUROPE" 



A series of three or four papers by Dr. J. A. Steiner. Dr. Steiner 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 human life 

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

 article appears this month entitled, *'Tlie Tribnte of Roses," the story of the thirteenth century 

 in France. The story of the Primrose licague and of How The Hague Got Its Name 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 Life of tlie Japanese Women," from the pen of Onoto 

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

 tributed by W. E. Johnson, well known to' the readers of Home and Fi,owers, 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 largest possible growth of flowers, and to the best advan- 

 tage. The series aims to show that the conditions of heat, space, arrangement and sunlight 

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

 for comfor^ and the fullest development of home life. 



Home and Floweks is making a specialty of good short stories, good in their plot interest 

 and healthy in tone. The aim will be to publish those in which flowers play an important 

 part. A number of these will appear during the year. Among the special single articles 

 for which arrangements are being made are. Village Improvement in tlie South, by Mrs. 

 Eugene B. Heard: The Bluff City Story, by Mayor James Glover; The Evangel 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 liife of the Old South and What 

 It May Teach Us, by Cephas Shelburne. 



