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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
November, ign 
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 sub¬ 
ject 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 writ¬ 
ing 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 
cf a subject which always abounds in new methods and discoveries. 
Every branch of gardening is treated in a delightfully practical way — the grow¬ 
ing of vegetables and flowers, the use of fertilizers, pruning, cultivating, spray¬ 
ing 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, makes the text especially clear. 
2nd Edition Revised and Enlarged: Cloth, 12mo. $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 technical 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 Garden¬ 
ing ” 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 aver¬ 
age 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 in¬ 
formation 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 un¬ 
failing value. Complete planting tables show at a glance when to plant, how deep, 
how far apart, the time of maturing, etc. Profusely illustrated. 
Cloth, 12mo. 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 cul¬ 
tural 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 landscape archi¬ 
tect, 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 en¬ 
trance 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 superb half-tone reproductions of representative gardens and homes. 
Cloth, 8 vo, $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, Ce¬ 
ment, Hutch Colonial (the gambrel roof type), Swiss Chalet, etc. Chapters written 
bv authorities cover all sides of the fascinating problem of house-building, inte¬ 
rior 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 compre¬ 
hensive and interesting way. Throughout the text are many pages of pictures 
illustrating constructive, decorative and furnishing details — entrance doorways, 
bay windows, outside shutters, chimneys, stairways, dormer windows, built-in 
china-cupboards, consistently furnished interiors, porches — all grouped so that the 
reader may, at a glance, 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 
Bung alows 
By HENRY H. SAYLOR 
H ERE at last is a book that covers in the most practical and comprehensive 
way the whole subject of bungalow building and furnishing, with a pro¬ 
fusion 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 inte¬ 
rior finish is also taken up, together with schemes for furnishing that are in har¬ 
mony with the informal and comfortable character of the building. The fire¬ 
place, 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 illus¬ 
trative 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 vo, $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 photo¬ 
graphs 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 Su¬ 
burban Home.” Within the sixty-four pages there are over one hundred and 
twenty-five illustrations and plans made doubly illuminating by information per¬ 
tinent 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, Nast & Co., Publishers , 31 East 17th Street, New York 
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