CONTENTS 
Contents Design ..s. 365 
Frontispiece .. 366 
Photograph by Mabel Take Priestman 
Homes that Architects Have Built for Themselves. 367 
By Mabel Tuke Priestman 
The Part Transplanting Plays in Garden Making. 370 
By Grace Tabor 
A Page of Subscribers’ Gardens. 372 
By Grace Tabor 
A New Garden Enemy and How to Fight It. 373 
By IV. H. Whetsel, Professor of Plant Pathology 
Cornell University 
When Fine Feathers Make Fine Birds. 374 
By E. I. Farrington 
Cut Flowers from the Fall Garden. 377 
By A. W. Dean 
Simple Instructions for Plotting a Lawn Sun Dial. 370 
By Claude L. Wooley 
The Garden for the English Type of House. 381 
By Grace Tabor 
The Best Use of Annuals. 384 
By H. S. Adams 
MAY, 1913 
Embellishing the Back Yard. 386 
By Violet Gordon Gray 
Success with Asters. 388 
By Nina R. Allen 
Complete Directions for Spraying . 39 ° 
By F. F. Rockwell 
The Hundred Per Cent. Garden. 392 
By F. F. Rockwell 
The Residence of Mr. Walter S. Crittenden. 394 
Parker Morse Hooper, Architect 
Inside the House. 396 
A Novel Coat Hanger 
Pressed Flowers on Panels 
“A. C.” and “D. C.” on Electrical Apparatus 
Hanging Window Curtains Effectively 
Garden Suggestions and Queries. 398 
Appropriate Flowers for May 
Irises and Their Selection 
Hedges and Trees 
Starting Tender Vegetables 
Editorial. 400 
May Blossoms in Southern Gardens. 359 
McBRIDE, NAST y 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. 
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