CONTENTS 
JULY, 1911 
Cover Design : A House at Atlantic City, N. J. 
Ford, Butler & Oliver, architects 
From a photograph by Julian A. Buckly 
Contents Design: Two Native Sedges 
Photographs by Nathan R. Graves 
Frontispiece : In the Forest of Fontainbleau 
Photograph by Thomas W. Sears, landscape architect 
A Little Home in a Peach Orchard . n 
By Louise Taylor Davis 
Sun-Dials and How to Make Them. 15 
By William A. Vollmer 
How the Japanese Arrange Flowers. 18 
By Bunkio Matsuki and F. W. Coburn 
Getting Acquainted with the July Flowers and Shrubs. . 20 
By Henry FI. Saylor 
The Possibilities of Half-Timbered Houses. 23 
By Harold Donaldson Eberlein 
Grow Your Own Fruit, V . 26 
By F. F. Rockivell 
Suggestions for Wood Fences. 28 
The Birds and Butterflies in a Suburban Garden. 29 
By Zulma De L. Steele 
Building a House with a Sleeping-Porch. 3^ 
By Maurice M. Feustmann 
Achieving Character in Remodeling. 34 
By Katharine Lord 
Summer Furnishing with Cretonne. 37 
By Sarah Leyburn Coe 
The Essentials of the Modern Kitchen. 38 
By James Earle Miller 
The Home of Mr. W. D. Bloodgood, Hewlett, L. 1 . 40 
/. Acker Hays, architect 
Inside the House. 42 
Curtains of Japanese Toweling To Prolong the Life of Leather 
Practical Bedroom Suggestions 
Garden Suggestions and Queries. 44 
Hardy Ornamental Grasses A Two-Year Garden 
The Garden Water Supply 
Ingenious Devices . 46 
An Oven Convenience A Home-Made Polisher 
Knock-down Picture Frames 
West Highland Terriers 
Colonizing Poultry 
The Wooly Aphis 
Copyright, lgn, by McBride, Winston & Co. 
HENRY II. SAYLOR, Editor. 
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