CONTENTS 
SEPTEMBER - 1911 
Cover Design: The Smoke House Studio. 
Oswald C. Hcring, architect 
Contents Design : Fall Anemones 
Photograph by Nathan R. Graves 
Frontispiece: The Home of Ernest Guilbert 
Photograph by H. H. S. 
Homes That Architects Have Built For Themselves. 14 7 
The Home of Ernest Guilbert, Forest Hills, N. J. 
By P. A. Huntington 
A Round-Up of the Best Peony Varieties.:. 151 
By Henry H. Saylor 
New Ways of Controlling Electricity in the Home. 154 
By Katharine Newbold Birdsall 
Three Experiences with Lily Pools..... 156 
By Dorothy and Lois Willoughby 
“Yama-No-Uchi” . ...... . 158 
By Robert Allister 
The Prophet’s Chamber.... 162 
By Lydia Lc Baron Walker 
Storing Vegetables and Fruit. ..... . 163 
By M. Roberts Conover 
The Simple Arts of Budding and Grafting. 164 
By Claude H. Miller 
A Revolutionary Idea in Flooring 
By J. C. Taylor 
What Type of Heating?. 
By Charles K. Farrington 
Growing the Milkweed for Food.... 169 
By Grace Aspinwall 
A Bulb That Will Prolong the Fall Garden. T 7 ° 
By Florence Beckwith 
,A Combination Hotbead and Storage Pit . I 7 I 
By Richard Maxwell Winans 
Inside Colonial Doorways.... ! 73 
Facts and Figures in Connection With Outside Painting. : 74 
By George E. Walsh 
The Home of Ruffin A. Smith, River Edge, N. J.176 
John A. Gurd, architect 
The Transformation of Two Stone Buildings On the Estate of W. E. PIering, 
Abington, Pa.... 1 77 
Oswald C. Henng, architect 
Inside the House. 178 
Brittany Pottery Suggestions to Users of Electricity Care of Screens 
Garden Department . 180 
Shrubs Making the Garden Path " House Plants 
Editorial Page'........ . . ... ......... 182 
Poultry Roosts Buying the Dog 
What to do for the Lawn in the Fall Care of Cut Flowers 
VOLUME XX NUMBER 3. ^ Copyright, 19.11, by McBride, Nast & Co. 
HENRY II. SAYLOR, Editor. 
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