HOME AND FLOWERS 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE FLORAL PUBLISHING COMPANY AT SPRINGFIELD, OHIO 



Louis E. Van Norman, Editor Eben E. Rexford, Floral Editor 



D. J. THOMAS, General Manager 



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Contents for February, 1903 



One of the Big Live Oaks in Audubon Park, New Orleans - - ... _ Frontispiece 



The Tribute of Roses. (Illustrated) - - - - - By Jessie M. Good .... 203 

 Decoration in the Home— As to Its Silent but Powerful Influence (Illustrated) - . . . . 



- By A. Blair Ridington - - - 207 



For Daily Inspiration. A Page of Fugitive Verse - . . ------- 209 



The Lesson of Washington ' s Life . ' ' The Spirit of Command Wedded to the Spirit of Meekness " - 



By Danskc Dandridge - - - 210 



The Town's Opportunity. (VI ) How It May Do More Than the City for a More Beautiful American Life 



(Illustrated) By Charles Mulford Robinson - - 212 



Mt. Mellick Embroidery. (Illustrated) - - - - By Jennie Bissicks . . . _ 21-4 



Has "Home and Flowers" Helped You to Live the Life Beautiful? (Editorial) - - . . . 



By Louis E. Van Norman - - _ 216 



Winning Her Way. II. - - - - - - By Eben E. Rexford - - - 219 



The House of Happy Hours. Chapter IV. Continued - - By Susie Bouchelle Wight - - 222 



A Word to Mothers and Fathers. /Prize offer) - - - - - - - - - 226 



Among the Flowers with Eben E. Rexford. (Illustrated)- - ------ 227 



Editorial; Grandmother's Garden -Poem; This, That and the Other; How We Built a Conservatory 



(Mrs. John Le Valley); What to Do in February; T'. Pink Lady-Slipper {IV C. Egan); February in 

 Southern Gardens {Mrs. G. T, Drennan), Our Rea ders' Perplexities; Perplexities from the South 

 {Answered by Mrs. G. T. Drennan)', Roses in California {M, D. Mansfield ; The Legend Of the Cardinal 

 Flower (Mrs E. M. Barrett). 



Public Improvements at St. Louis. (Illustrated) - - . ....... 240 



The Weil-Ordered Household— Home Sanitation. (Illustrated) - Conducted by Martha Van Rensselaer - 241 

 The World Beautiful, A Survey of Current Betterment Effort. (Illustrated) ------ 250 



Nervous Prosperity; Lessons from an English City; A Unique School for Women; St. Louis Still Brushing 

 Up; Dr. Lorenz, "Straigthener of Children"; An Outdoor Art Club; Great Things Planned for Philadel- 

 phia; The Railroads Are Coming to It Also; The National Government and Floriculture ; Man and the 

 Rose; Why Not a Sunset Club? Babes and Blossoms; Figures Tell the Story; A Winter Use for Summer 

 Assemblies; Apropos of Our Washington Story. 



Sunshine Every Day in the Year. - . . . . Conducted by Mrs. Jessie MacKenzie Walker 262 



Book Notes ---------- ...... 264 



The Mystic Garden. Conducted by Aunt Eunice - - - 266 



The State Flowers. Oklahoma . . . . , By Mrs. G. T. Drennan - - - 268 



Copyright, 1903, by The Floral Publisliing Company. Entered as second-class matter at the Springfield, Ohio, post-office 



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