﻿AMERICAN 
  

  

  HOMES 
  AND 
  GARDENS 
  

  

  Price, 
  25 
  Cents. 
  $3.00 
  a 
  Year 
  

  

  CONTENTS 
  FOR 
  OCTOBER, 
  1907 
  

  

  PAGE 
  

  

  Cows 
  Drinking 
  at 
  the 
  Brookside 
  at 
  Eventide 
  .... 
  362 
  

  

  Monthly 
  Comment 
  3^4 
  

  

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

  

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

  

  Heating 
  the 
  House 
  37 
  l 
  

  

  Gardening 
  Without 
  Soil 
  .By 
  S. 
  Leonard 
  Bastin 
  372 
  

  

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

  

  Carters 
  By 
  Francis 
  Durando 
  Nichols 
  375 
  

  

  Stenciling 
  the 
  Apple 
  By 
  Adrian 
  W 
  eimas 
  380 
  

  

  The 
  Nineteenth 
  Century 
  Bedroom 
  By 
  Esther 
  Singleton 
  382 
  

  

  Small 
  American 
  Homes 
  By 
  Paul 
  Thurston 
  386 
  

  

  How 
  to 
  Tour 
  in 
  an 
  Automobile 
  By 
  Harry 
  B. 
  Haines 
  391 
  

  

  Port 
  Sunlight, 
  a 
  Significant 
  English 
  Experiment 
  in 
  Village 
  Building. 
  

  

  By 
  Mabel 
  Tuke 
  Priest 
  man 
  395 
  

  

  The 
  Suburban 
  Pear 
  Tree. 
  Garden 
  Work 
  for 
  October. 
  

  

  The 
  Sanitation 
  of 
  the 
  Country 
  House. 
  New 
  Books. 
  

  

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  Rate 
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