House and Garden 
GARDEN FEATURES 
The Garden features for the coming year will, we feel, be better than ever before. 
Landscape effects for the larger estates and how to produce them will be written of by Engineers and Land¬ 
scape Architects whose work has been proven out successfully. Some old-fashioned gardens—such as our 
great grandmothers loved so well—will be reproduced in plan and planting lists given. Of Formal gardens, 
many charming ones will he shown, selected from all parts of this and other countries by experts in the art. 
Mr. Eben E. Rexford, W. C. Egan and others will contribute timely papers on the 
various problems which confront the lover of flowers and tell how to solve them. They will also write of how 
to obtain the best effects in garden planting and name best varieties of plants to use, the same being the results 
of their own personal experiences. Some of the really remarkable and interesting things to which Mr. 
Luther Burbank has been devoting years of experimental work, will be described by Georgia Torrey Drennan, 
while many of our readers have contributed articles, telling of their mistakes or successes in their garden 
efforts, all of which will prove excellent guides to others working along similar lines. 
SPANISH-AMERICAN PATIOS 
“Spanish-American Patios” will be shown and their use and adaptability for more 
northern latitudes discussed. Their decorative possibilities in connection with the conservatory forms only 
one of their desirable features. 
HISTORICAL BUILDINGS 
Several articles with rare illustrations will appear during the year—descriptive of 
Historical buildings or places—wherein the salient points are susceptible of being introduced in modified form 
into new structures, or in the development of the gardens. 
GRILL ROOMS AND RESTAURANTS OF THE WORLD 
The perfection which the art of serving large numbers of people in limited time has 
reached, has led us to present several short descriptive articles—profusely illustrated—of the housing of the 
really great Grill Rooms and Restaurants of the world. The completeness of detail will prove a revelation to 
the majority of our readers, and yet many of the conveniences can and should be installed in our larger homes, 
with very desirable results. 
THE STABLE AND KENNEL 
The Stable and Kennel Department in this Magazine is intended to cover a tolerably 
wide range, and to embrace within its consideration all kinds of animals ordinarily kept on a country place. 
KINE 
We have already treated of horses and dogs, and an early article will be devoted to 
kine. This particular article will be beautifully illustrated with pictures of specimens and groups from the 
most notable herds in America. 
PIGS 
Nor will the pig be neglected. For it must be known that these are very interesting 
animals, and there is a wide variety of types, going all the way from the short-legged Berkshire to the 
lean and fleet-footed Razor-back. It used to be that these Razor-backs that roamed the forests of Virginia 
and Kentucky were considered in their porcine way to be about on a par with the poor-whites of the South. 
There could be no greater mistake. From them come the best hams and bacon in the world. They are 
worthy of study and possibly of cultivation, though cultivation may hurt the wildness which gives to them 
their game flavor. 
POULTRY 
To poultry we shall give particular attention. A gentleman living in the country 
who does not raise his own fowls makes a great mistake. It is the feed and drink provided to a chicken 
which makes or mars him. A chicken is not naturally nice in its habits, and will eat and drink anything. 
The cleanly Quakers recognized the importance of the proper feeding of chickens before anyone else, and 
so in every market of the United States to-day “Philadelphia Chickens” are quoted. This does not mean 
that these chickens come from Philadelphia or its neighborhood, but that they are superior, and have been 
properly fed and dressed. 
HORSES 
The editor’s particular predilections are for horses, and on equine matters he will 
usually supply the copy himself; but on some other topics pertinent to the department he purposes securing 
the aid and co-operation of the foremost authorities in the country. But on one thing he insists. No 
cut-and-dried technical treatises will he permit in this department. Practicality, as a first essential, in 
every case, he insists on. Bringing himself the fruit of many years’ experience in these subjects, his aim is to 
make himself your Counselor-in-Chief, and his Department the “Handy Annex” to your country place. 
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