AUGUST-1912 
The Naturalizing of a City Man. 90 
Reclaiming Old Houses — IV. 92 
By Charles Edward Hooper 
The Flowerless Garden. 95 
CONTENTS 
Cover Design : Nasturtiums 
Photograph hy Nathan R. 
Graves 
Contents Design: Photograph hy Mrs. E. E. 
Trumbull 
Frontispiece : 
Photograph by Ella M. Boult 
By Arthur Herrington 
Keeping Provisions Cool Without Ice. . 
98 
The Desirability of a Water Garden 
By William Tricker 
__ By Sarah Leyburn Coe 
73 
Salad Plants the Year ’Round 
100 
Overdoor Inscriptions and Devices. 78 
By Harold Donaldson Eberlein 
Six Weeks of Strawberries. 80 
By M. Roberts Conover 
The Handicraft House. 81 
By Louise Shrimpton 
Drought Resisting Plants . 84 
By Georgia Torrey Drennan 
A Little Suburban Garden. 86 
By Estelle Palmer 
What the Dutch Can Tell Us About House Planning. 87 
By Antoinette Rehmann Perrett 
By F. F. Rockwell 
The House of Mr. H. E. Coffin, Grosse Pointe, Michigan. 102 
Albert Kahn and Ernest Wilby, architects 
Inside the House. 104 
The Old-fashioned Hooked Rug 
A Hanging Lamp Screen 
Suggestions for the Living-Room 
A Good Shower Room for Bathers 
Garden Suggestions and Queries. 106 
A Mulch for Strawberries 
Destroying Weeds 
Vegetables for the Fall Garden 
Preparing Plants for Winter 
Editorial . I0 ^ 
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Copyright, 1912, hy McBride, Nast & Co. 
VOLUME XXII HENRY H. SAYLOR, Editor 
NUMBER 2 
