CONTENTS 
AUGUST 
1913 
Cover Design: The Homestead 
Photograph by H. H. Saylor 
Contents Design 
Photograph by Louis S. Clarke 
Frontispiece: A Meadow Water Garden 
Photograph by Ella M. Boult 
Water Gardens for Every Place.. 73 
By A. W. Dean 
The Motor Emigrants. 79 
By C. H. Claudy 
Consider the Lilies. 81 
By D. R. Edson 
Simple Wall Treatments That Are Effective. 84 
By Louise Shrinipton 
Poison Ivy and Poison Dogwood. 87 
By Annie Oakes Huntington 
The Life of the Butterfly. 89 
By Frank E. Lutz, Ph. D. 
The Porch and Its Uses. 93 
By Harold Donaldson Eberlein 
The Right Use of Evergreens. 96 
By Grace Tabor 
Late Planting in the Vegetable Garden. 100 
By F. F. Rockwell 
The Residence of Mr. M. A. Selsor, Greenwich, Conn. 102 
Inside the House. 104 
The Fireplace in Summer 
Door Porters 
Blue and White Furnishings 
A Chair of Old English Inspiration 
Garden Suggestions and Queries . 106 
Late Plantings 
The Summer Insect Danger 
Preparing for Winter 
In the Flower Garden 
Editorial. 108 
McBRIDE, NAST iff COMPANY - - Union Square North,.New York 
Robert M. McBride, President; Conde Nast, Vice-President and Treasurer; Frederick A. Leland, Secjetaj-y; JobTi-T.-ElsroSd, Assistant 
Treasurer. Published Monthly. 25 cents per copy; $3.00 per year. For Foreign Postage, add $1.00; Canadian, 50'cenVSi' Entered as 
second-class matter at the Post-Office, at New York, N. Y., under act of March 3, 1879. “■>,» 
WILLIAM A. VOLLMER , - 
VOLUME XXIV 
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Copyright, 1913, by McBride, Nast & Co. 
Managing Editor 
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