VOLUME XX. NUMBER 
CONTENTS 
OCTOBER - 1911 
Cover Design: The Entrance to the Home of Ernest F. Guilbert, 
ARCHITECT, FOREST HlLL, N. J. 
From a photograph by H. H. S. 
Contents Design: Indian Summer Days 
Photograph by H. H. S. 
Frontispiece: The Fountain on the Estate of Mr. John D. 
Rockefeller 
Photograph by Alice Boughton 
Putting on the Winter Garb Indoors. 211 
By Hettie Rlioda Meade 
The Last Word of Spring-Blooming Bulbs. 215 
By Chester Jay Hunt 
A Shaded Tulip Border. 217 
By Zulma De L. Steele 
The New Wall Papers. 218 
By Lydia LeBaron Walker 
The Twelve Best Perennials to Plant Now. 221 
By H. S. Adams 
Annuals That Do Better When Fall Sown. 224 
By E. 0. Calvene 
How to Measure Your Own Garden Area. 225 
By Arthur W. Dean 
Furnishing and Decorating the Nursery. 226 
By Sarah Leyburn Coe 
Restoring Old Shrubs to Vigor. 228 
By Grace Tabor 
Twelve Garden Effects Worthy of Emulation. 230 
What Varnishes Really Are. 232 
By Katharine Newbold Birdsall 
The Fall Clean-Up in Flower and Vegetable Garden. 232 
By F. F. Rockzvell 
Planting the House Border. 236 
By Warren J. Chandler 
What Can Be Done in Finishing Inexpensive Woods. 238 
By Louise Shrimpton 
The Home of Edward T. Hapgood, Architect, Hartford, Conn. . 240 
Inside the House. 242 
A Handy Icebox A Folding Desk 
Lightening the Housewife’s Burden 
Garden Suggestions and Queries. 244 
How to Take Cuttings A Persistent Dahlia 
Save Part of the Flower Garden 
Editorial Page . 2 46 
The Pekingese Dog Three Poultry Fallacies 
Copyright, 1911, by McBride, Nast & Co. HENRY H. SAYLOR, Editor. 
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