A pril, 1917 
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Cover Design by Porter Woodruff 
Frontispiece—A Jewel Enshrined. 18 
Cross & Cross, Architects 
\\"hat Is Modern Decoration? . 19 
B. Russell Herts 
The Beauty Spot of the Room. 22 
Peyton Boswell 
The Residence of Henry W. Blake, Esq., at Englewood, 
N. J. 24 
Hays & Hoadley, Architects 
Fresh Berries— With Cream. 25 
Robert Stell 
Editorial . 26 
The Frantic Astronomer; by Christopher Morlcy 
An Intimate Dooryard. 27 
Kelley & Graves, Architects 
The Delicate Beauty of Chinese Porcelains. 28 
Gardner Tcall 
The Ever Essential Rose. 30 
F. F. Rockwell 
Men's Furniture for Men’s Rooms. 32 
What a Fifty-foot Garden Will Grow. 33 
Mary Rankin Thomas 
The Group in Furniture Arrangement. 34 
H. D. Eberlein and Abbot McClure 
Color Tendencies in Spring Fabrics. 36 
Shingle and Thatch for the Cottage Roof. 38 
Gustave Caretto 
Bucks, Frills and Horseflesh in Old English Prints_ 40 
Clifford Fopplcton 
In the Garden of James Parmelee, Esq., Washington, 
D. C. 41 
Charles A. Platt, Architect 
A Country Cottage of Compact Lines. 42 
Wallace & Warner, Architects 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. 43 
Flowers of the Rainbow Goddess. 46 
Grace Tabor 
Compromising with the Eaves. 48 
H. Beresford Stanton 
Six Schemes for the Eoundation Border. 50 
Elizabeth Leonard Strang 
How the Strawberry Sees It Through. 52 
William C. McCoUoni 
Essentials in Bedroom Burnishing. 53 
Agnes Foster 
Convenient Devices for the House. 54 
The Gardener’s Kalendar. 
Seen in the Shops . 
Planting Things to Grow and Live. 
D. R. Edson 
Iron Fences for the Permanent Place. 
H. P. Thurston 
Knowing the Wild Mushrooms. 
Orin Croaker 
Ships That Never Went to Sea. 
Costen Fitz-Gibbon 
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Copyright, 1917, by Conde Nast & Co., Inc. 
“SUMER 
W HILE you, gentyl readers, 
were knocking the icicles off 
the old pump and praying that 
the coal in the cellar would see the 
winter through, we were disporting 
ourselves in zephyr-swept gardens, 
lolling in easy chairs on sunny 
porches and lying about on shaded 
lawns listening to the trickle of 
water from wall fountains—edito¬ 
rially speaking. And in those pleas¬ 
ant hours we assembled such stuff 
as summer homes are made of. All 
of them will be shown in the next 
issue—May—which is yclept The 
Spring Furnishing Number. 
Here are articles—and pictures 
galore—on breakfast rooms and 
porches; the country house dining¬ 
room table between meals; new 
summer house fabrics and wall pa- 
hot weather rugs and furni- 
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There are all kinds of porches in the May issue, 
is only a glimpse of one. Wait and see! 
This 
Italian tables and on French prints. 
The gardener finds complete satis¬ 
faction in the stories on lilacs, on 
making rock gardens and on the use 
of summer bulbs. In addition, of 
course, there is the gardener’s calen¬ 
dar, that necessary vade meciim, a 
description of a small formal gar¬ 
den, a spread on dogwood, tree 
surgery and on seasonal culture. Not 
the least important of the gardening 
articles is the fifth of D. R. Edson’s 
series telling the whole story of the 
game—from the ground up, literally 
and figuratively. 
For the house builder are two 
small houses that are top hole and 
a medium-sized country house that 
takes the prize. Speaking of prizes, 
it may interest you to know that of 
the executed houses shown at the 
Architectural League Exhibit this 
pers; _ 
ture; and a portfolio of rooms that must be a joy to live in— year, 90% of them appeared in House & Garden in the previous 
certainly they are a joy to look at. The student of interior dec- twelve issues. This is picking winners. It is also giving you 
oration will find it to her advantage to read the articles on Early the first view of the best domestic architecture in America. 
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