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Contents Design: Photograph by Ella M. Boult . 265 
Frontispiece: Photograph by Ella M. Boult . 266 
Spring in the Garden. 267 
By Walter Prichard Eaton 
The Vital Functions of Light in the Home . 270 
By F. Laurent Godinez 
The Various Uses of Shrubs and Shrubbery .•. 273 
By E. O. Calvene 
Why You Should Grow Small Fruits . 276 
By D. R. Edson 
Ten Annuals for this Year’s Garden. 279 
By Grace Tabor 
House and Garden’s Gardening Guide — 1913 . 282 
The Special Value of Perennials . 284 
By H. S. Adams 
Your Animal Neighbors. 287 
By Ernest Harold Baynes 
The Hundred Per Cent. Garden . 290 
By F. F. Rockwell 
Color in the Flower Garden . 292 
By Ida D. Bennett 
Purchasing Garden Equipment . 295 
By K. R. Dunn 
Framing the House with Vines. 296 
By E. J. Goodhue 
The Residence of Mr. W. S. Rhoads . 298 
W. Duncan Lee, Architect 
Inside the House . 300 
New Curtains Made from Old Ones 
A New Shoe-Blacking Outfit 
The Cellar Problem 
A Parcel Post Scale 
Garden Suggestions and Queries. 302 
Choice of Plants 
The Earth and the Seed 
Care of the Lawn 
The Question of Fertilizing 
Editorial . 304 
A Southern Garden Notebook . 336 
By Julia Lester Dillon 
McBRIDE, NAST fc? COMPANY, - - Union Square North, New York 
VOLUME XXIII 
Robert M. McBride, President; Conde Nast, Vice-President; Henry H. Saylor, Treasurer. Published Monthly. 25 cents per copy; $3.00 
per year. For Foreign Postage, add $1.00; Canadian, 50 cents. Entered as second-class matter at the Post-office, at New York, N. Y., 
under act of March 3, 1879. 
HENRY H. SAYLOR WILLIAM A. VOLLMER 
Editor Managing Editor 
Copyright. 1913, by McBride, Nast & Co. 
NUMBER 4 
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