IMPORTANT HOUSE AND GARDEN BOOKS 
The Garden Primer 
By GRACE TABOR 
T HE GARDEN PRIMER, as its title indicates, is a hand-book of practical 
gardening information for the beginner, covering every branch of the 
subject from preparing the soil to the gathering of the fruit and flowers. 
In it is set forth, without any confusing technicalities, just the information 
that will enable the amateur to grasp quickly the essentials of garden¬ 
making. The author, in preparing this book, has drawn from her long 
experience, and in writing it assumes on the part of the reader no knowledge 
of the subject, in order that it may be of the greatest value to the beginner. 
While dealing with first principles this volume has an equal interest for the 
advanced gardener, who will find much of value in the experiences of the 
author, and in a fresh presentation of a subject which always abounds in 
new methods and discoveries. 
Every branch of gardening is treated in a delightfully practical way—the 
growing of vegetables and flowers, the use of fertilizers, pruning, cultivating, 
spraying and the thousand-and-one things that every successful garden-maker 
needs to know. A profusion of illustrations, many of them of the most 
practical sort in explaining the various garden operations, make the text 
especially clear. 
2nd Edition Revised and Enlarged: Cloth, 12 mo. $1.00 net; postage 9 cents 
Home Vegetable Gardening 
By F. F. ROCKWELL 
T HERE are many books that treat of vegetable gardening, fruit growing 
and the like, in an encyclopedic way. They tell what vegetables there 
are, their characteristics, ideal conditions for each, what pests are liable 
to attack them, and so on, giving far too much information and in too tech¬ 
nical a form for the man or woman who wants to establish a vegetable garden 
on the country place or suburban plot for family use. Here is just where 
"Home Vegetable Gardening” is different from books of this kind. The author, 
F. F. Rockwell, is a practical gardener himself. He realizes from long 
experience just what the average layman wants to know in order to raise 
a successful crop of vegetables and fruit. Accordingly, he has gathered 
together in this little volume exactly the information that will make it of 
satisfying value to the amateur. Nothing is omitted to make a book that 
will answer every question and prove a reference of unfailing value. Complete 
planting tables show at a glance when to plant, how deep, how far apart, 
the time of maturing, etc. Profusely illustrated. 
Cloth, 12 mo. uniform with the “Garden Primer” $1.00 net; postage 9 cents 
The Landscape Gardening Book 
By GRACE TABOR 
T HERE have been many books published within the past few years on the 
various branches of gardening, but most of these have dealt with the 
cultural side exclusively. The larger subject, embracing the whole site 
of the country home, particularly one of moderate size, has apparently been 
ignored. The author of “The Landscape Gardening Book,” a well-known land¬ 
scape architect, has written the one book that solves the whole problem of 
making a home out of a house and plot. The book shows just how to plan the 
home grounds, whether they consist of a suburban plot or a large estate— 
how to plan the entrance walks and driveways; how to plant trees so that 
they will give the most value in shade and beauty; how to group and plant 
shrubbery for a harmonious mass as well as a succession of bloom; how to 
make the grounds attractive in winter—in short, this is the one essential 
book for the man who would have his home something more than a mere 
building set on the earth. The illustrations are suberb half-tone repro¬ 
ductions of representative gardens and homes. 
Cloth, 8 vols. $2.00 net; postage 20 cents 
Distinctive Homes of Moderate Cost 
Edited by HENRY H. SAYLOR 
T HIS book has been published in response to an ever-increasing demand 
for a volume of pictures, plans and descriptions of the most charming 
homes in the country—not the great estates and show places, but the 
sort of places that most of us can look forward to building, ranging In cost 
from $3,000 to $20,000. 
The illustrations, of which there are more than three hundred, both of the 
exteriors of houses and their garden settings, and of the principal rooms 
inside, are all from photographs of houses already built, reproduced In 
superb half-tone engravings, with line drawings of the floor plans. 
The carefully selected contents include country homes, seashore cottages, 
alluring bungalows, inexpensively remodeled farmhouses, etc. All the desirable 
architectural styles are represented: Colonial, English Half-timber, Stucco, 
Cement, Dutch Colonial (the gambrel roof type), Swiss Chalet, etc. Chapters 
written by authorities cover all sides of the fascinating problem of house¬ 
building, interior decoration and furnishing. The relations between the home¬ 
builder and his architect, the matter of plans, specifications, contracts, the 
puzzling problem of extras and how to avoid them—all these subjects are 
clarified in a most comprehensive and interesting way. Throughout the text 
are many pages of pictures illustrating constructive, decorative and furnishing 
details—entrance doorways, bay windows, outside shutters, chimneys, stair¬ 
ways, dormer windows, built-in china-cupboards, consistently furnished In¬ 
teriors, porches—all grouped so that the reader may, at a glanoe, compare 
all the best types. 
"Distinctive Homes of Moderate Cost” is a sumptuous book of 10 x 13% 
inches bound in gray crash with tasteful decoration. Printed on Plate Paper 
with over 300 Illustrations. 
Net $2.00; postage 25 cents 
Bungalows 
By HENRY H. SAYLOR 
H ERE at last Is a book that covers in the most practical and compre¬ 
hensive way the whole subject of bungalow building and furnishing, 
with a profusion of pictures of successful bungalows and their interior 
arrangements. The author, an architect himself, points out the advantages 
of the bungalow type of house and shows how it has been applied to fit 
American needs. The matters of planning and building materials are 
thoroughly covered: the subject of interior finish is also taken up, together 
with schemes for furnishing that are in harmony with the Informal and 
comfortable character of the building. The fireplace, too, always an 
important feature, is thoroughly discussed, as well as such essential features 
in the completion of a successful bungalow as water supply and drainage. 
The pictures and plans In which the book abounds are of the various types 
of bungalows—those adapted for all-the-year-around occupancy, for summer 
homes, mountain camps, and the seashore. The many superb pictures forming 
the illustrative features are of bungalows that have actually been built, 
and are the work of leading architects in various parts of the country. They 
have been carefully selected so as to prove of the greatest value to the 
prospective builder of this fascinating type of moderate priced house. 
Cloth, 8 vols. $1.50 net; postage 20 cents 
Inexpensive Homes of Individuality 
T HE prospective builder can find no more adequate or valuable assistant 
in determining the style, construction and decoration of his home than 
this book, "Inexpensive Homes of Individuality.” It contains plans and 
photographs of houses, moderate in size and of greatest architectural merit 
and is full of just such suggestions as the man about to build will appreciate. 
It offers an opportunity to study in detail some of the best homes in the 
country, of many different styles and varying in cost from $2,000 to $8,000. 
Mr. Frank Miles Day, past president of the American Institute of Architects, 
has written the introduction on the "Choice of a Style for the Country or 
Suburban Home.” Within the sixty-four pages there are over one-hundred 
and twenty-flve illustrations and plans made doubly illuminating by informa¬ 
tion pertinent to cost, location and detail of construction. Printed on 
coated paper with an attractive art cover design In two colors. 
Price 25 cents postpaid 
McBride, Winston & Co., Publishers, 449 Fourth Avenue, New York 
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