CONTENTS - SEPTEMBER, 1912 
Cover Design: “Princessgate,” Wyoming, N. J. 
Joy Wheeler Dow, Architect 
Photograph by Eldred S. Bates 
Contents Design: Photograph by Mrs. E. E. Trumbull 
Frontispiece : Peonies 
Photograph by Ella M. Boult 
The Picturesque Garden. 131 
By Charles Downing Lay 
The Practical Ice House. 134 
By A. S. Atkinson 
Attractive Schemes from Holland Homes. 136 
Candle Lighting and Candlesticks. . 146 
By Katherine Neivbold Birdsall 
The Naturalizing of a City Man. 148 
Our Native Asters. 15° 
By Florence Beckzvith 
Distinctive Devices for House Exteriors... 153 
By Harold Donaldson Eberlein 
Making a Garden with Hotbed and Coldframe. 156 
By Claude H. Miller 
The Home of Mrs. L. M. Thorn, Tarrytown, New York. 158 
Flow to Buy Good Antiques . 137 
By N. Hudson Moore 
A Small Orchid Greenhouse. 140 
By Mary Nelms 
The Proper Floor for the Small House. 142 
By Louise Shrimpton 
A Kentucky Garden of Individuality. 144 
By Ingram Crockett 
The Home of Mr. F. B. Carter, Evanston, Illinois. 159 
Inside the House. 160 
Wall Vases for Flowers The Ice Box Overflow 
Batteries for Electric Bells Attractive Bedroom Papers 
Garden Suggestions and Queries. 162 
A Practical Hotbed Fall Planting 
Growing Mushrooms Lettuce for Thanksgiving 
Editorial . 164 
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Copyright, 1912 , by McBride, Nast Sr Co. 
VOLUME XXII 
HENRY H. SAYLOR, Editor 
NUMBER 3 
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