HOUSE AND GARDEN 
A 
P R I L , 
1912 
Tbe Book 
HOME BUILDING AND DECORATION 
The IViagazine 
COUNTRY LIFE IN AMERICA 
Date 
Doubleday, Page &• Co., H; G. 4.12 I 
Garden City, N. Y. 
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The flowers that bloom in the spring tra la 
Breathe promise of merry sunshine." 
Spring is planting time and building 
time and furnishing time. It is the time 
for help. And here is help right at hand 
in a Book and a Magazine—both will be 
sent you to-day on approval. Just clip 
the coupon below and mail to-day. 
The Book: “ Home Building and Decoration” [just 
published]. It is unique in practical value. Over lOO leading 
manufacturers with their advertising have cooperated with 20 
authoritative writers on building and furnishing in making it 
practical. And 300 illustrations, with 40 plates in full color, 
make it beautiful. Sixty-one copies of the book were sent 
on approval to subscribers of Country Life in America: Fifty- 
three have been paid for (^3.00 each) as this is written, and 
not one has come back. The book is too valuable, it saves too 
much money to be returned. Look over the contents and you 
will see why. 
List of Contents — Color Schemes for Exterior of the House — Color Schemes for 
Interior of tlie House — Some Recent Designs of Houses and Bungalows, showing var¬ 
ious types — Furniture — The Living Room — The Dining Room — The Library — The 
Kitchen — The'Bcdroom — ,The Bathroom — Artistic Hardware. Inside and Out — 
Hangings, Curtains, Draperies, Etc. —■ Sanitary Wall Coverings — The Entrance Beau¬ 
tiful, The Door, The Porch — Floor Coverings — In the Garden — Portable Garages, 
Houses, Bungalows, Etc. — All About Roofing- — Gates and Fences — Telephones— 
Refrigerators— Fire-proof Construction — Stained Glass in the House — Mantels and 
I'ireplacrs — Floor Frm'shes — Varnishes — What Not To Do’ — Illumination — Gas 
Ranges. Healing, Etc. — Electric Cooking Utensils — Oil Stoves, Etc. — Recent Late 
Examples in Modern Concrete Construction — Houses for the Suburb and the Country. 
The Magazine: “ Country Life in America.” You 
have doubtless long intended to have this beautiful and helpful 
magazine in your home. Every year it contains over 1500 
large pages and over 1000 beautiful photographs, covering 
every phase of home building, furnishing, decorating, gardening, 
outside and in, live stock, poultry, nature study, automobiling 
— the whole round of life in the open, and Spring is nearly here. 
Among the Special Numbers in 1912: “The Gardening Manual,” FebruaiY IS 
(adouble soc. number); “The Spring Building Number,” March isth; “The Anniver¬ 
sary Number,” April ist; “ The Vacation Guide,” June ist; " The Narrative Num¬ 
ber,” August ist; “The Annual Housebuilding Number,” Ottober isth (a double soc. 
number); “The Mid-Western Number,” November 15th, and “The Christmas 
Annual,” in December, (also a double 50c. number). Subscription price, ?4.ooa year. 
The Readers^ Service is free to all subscribers of Country Life 
in America. This department will answer specific questions 
and give help on building, interior decorations, improving the 
home grounds, etc. Many subscribers have told us that our 
advice has saved in money, many times the cost of the maga¬ 
zine. These experts are at our subscribers’ service as often as 
they need help. 
Special on Approval Offer: Both the Book i$3,00) and the Magazine 
($4.00) will be sent for you to examine: A $7.00 offer for $S,00 — 
and on approval. Clip the coupon and mail to day. 
Two Books You Need Right Now 
Making a Lawn 
By LUKE T. DOOGUE 
Have you ever stopped to consider how im¬ 
portant a feature your lawn is in the whole ap¬ 
pearance of the country or suburban home? 
Would n't expert advice upon its making and 
care be acceptable? There are many erroneous 
ideas current in regard to lawn-making—better 
get the whole truth of the matter as set forth 
concisely by the Superintendent of the Boston 
Public Grounds Department. 
Making a Rose Garden 
By HENRY H. SAYLOR 
Which will make it easy for you to have a 
wealth of beautiful, fragrant, long-stemmed 
roses this year. No phase of rose-growing, 
from the preparation of the beds to the prun¬ 
ing of the bushes and the elimination of all 
pests, is left untouched by the author. The 
book makes easy the most gratifying success in 
growing the Queen of Flowers. 
Order from your bookseller or from 
Union Square, New York City 
The price of either book is but 50c net; postage 6c. 
McBride, Nast iff Co., Publishers, 
Home V egetable 
Gardening 
By F. F. Rockwell 
A BOOK for the man who wants to raise his own 
vegetables, fruits and berries, written by a 
man who actually does it himself. 
Mr. Rockwell has the happy faculty of anticipating 
the thousand and one questions regarding the choice 
of varieties, planting time, succession crops, fighting 
pests and so on, answering these clearly and con¬ 
cisely almost before they occur to the amateur. He 
takes up systematically and in careful detail all 
the activities that engage the amateur gardener’s 
attention, from the starting of the earliest seeds in¬ 
doors, through the summer campaign against garden 
enemies and drought, to the ingenious methods de¬ 
vised for prolonging the bearing season well into 
the winter, and the proper storage of the crops. 
There is something radically wrong with the man 
who cannot, with this book’s aid, have a successful 
garden. 
“Nothing that one can think of in con¬ 
nection with the kind of work is omitted, 
even to the shajie and form of the garden 
tools. . . . Everything is condensed to 
the very essentials. . . . Nothing of its 
kind can be recalled that is more admirable 
in every sense.”— Buffalo Evening News. 
i2mo, 262 pages; illustrated with 100 photographs 
and many diagrams. 
Bound in green linen boards. 
(Uniform with The Garden Primer.) 
Price $1.00 net; postage, 8 cents. 
The Landscape 
Gardening Book 
By Grace Tabor 
Author of “The Garden Primer,” etc. 
T he great problem ot telling how most effec¬ 
tively to treat the home grounds has never 
been attempted, apparently, from the lay¬ 
man’s point of view, until the publication of this 
book. With it as guide and counselor, the home, 
whether a small suburban plot or a great country 
place, will be given that air of distinction that comes 
with the proper planting of trees, shrubs, flowers 
and vines and in the judicious laying out of walks 
and garden spaces. The tables showing what to 
plant, where and how, giving, for instance, full par¬ 
ticulars regarding the best hedge plants, the best 
things to grow in rocky, moist, sunny or shady 
places, the most dependable vines, and so on, are 
worth in themselves many times the price of the 
book. Between a successful setting for a home and 
a ludicrous hodge-podge lies no difference in cost, 
necessarily—merely a difference in knowledge such 
as this volume offers. 
Quarto, 7 x lo inches; 250 pages; illustrated with 
many photographs and diagrams. 
Bound in dark blue linen boards with a full-color 
inlay and gold stamping. 
Price $2.00 net; postage, 20 cents. 
Distinctive Homes of 
Moderate Cost 
Edited by Henry H. Saylor 
Author of “Bungalows” and Editor of House and 
Garden. 
Second Large Edition. 
A BOOK with literally a thousand suggestions 
for the prospective home-builder. All the 
practical information needed in connection 
with materials, costs, fireplace construction, heating, 
lighting, furnishing and so on, together with pictures 
—inside and out—and plans of some of the best 
homes of moderate size in this country. The many 
chapters are written by such well known authorities 
as Alexander Buell Trowbridge, Charles^ Edward 
Hooper, Margaret Greenleaf, Harold Whiting Slau- 
son, George Leland Hunter and Louise Shrimpton. 
The “Boston Transcript” says: “The book 
is fully illustrated throughout and taste¬ 
fully printed. The text is clearly of excep¬ 
tional value.” 
The “Detroit Press” says: “This beauti¬ 
fully made and profusely pictured book is 
designed to help the man who is about 
to build to know more definitely what he 
wants, and needs, not only in the house, 
but in its site and its surrounding;s. . . . 
The volume is practical and illustrates 
many charming houses.” 
174 pages, 10 X 12(4 inches, on heavy coated paper 
with 470 illustrations from photographs and plans. 
Bound in gray linen boards with a striking cover 
design in black, cream and maroon. 
Price $2.00 net; postage, 30 cents. 
McBritde, Nast^ Co., Publishers 
Union Square, New York City 
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