House ^Garden 
JUNE, 1917 
Contents 
VOL. XXXI, NO. SIX 
Cover Design by Porter Woodruff 
Frontispiece—Stairs Into the Sky. 14 
Putting the Farm on a W'ar Footing. IS 
F. F. Rockwell 
There’s Nothing New Under the Sun in a Garden. 18 
Roses of Yexlow and Roses of Gold. 20 
Georgia Torrey Drennan 
Editorial . 22 
Out of Town, by Viola Brothers Shore 
A Glimpse at “Weld”. 23 
Sword-Guards of Feudal Japan . 24 
Gardner Teall 
On the Lawn, In the Garden. 26 
The Residence of J. Clarence Parsons, Esq., at Phoenix- 
viLLE, Pa. 28 
IVilUam Copeland Fitrber, Architect 
Country Cottage Under-curtains. 29 
Early Italian Wall Furniture. 30 
Abbot McClure and FI. D. Ebcrlem 
The Best White Flowers. 32 
Grace Tabor 
The Sleeping Porch by Day and Night. 35 
Birdaline Bowdoin 
Gods of the Garden Come Out Again. 36 
Country House Water Systems. 37 
Charles Edward Hooper . 
The Residence of Henry R. Swartley, Jr., Esq., Great 
Neck, L. 1. 38 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. 39 
Green Lawns and Grass Seed for Every State. 42 
Hugh Smith 
The Gate Inside the House. 44 
The Decorator as Author. 45 
The Final Touch to the Landscape Scheme. 46 
Robert S. Lemmon 
Defining Colonial Architecture. 48 
William B. Bragdon 
Convenient Devices for the House. 50 
The Gardener’s Kalendar. 51 
Seen in the Shops. 52 
In the Hot Weather Trenches. 54 
D. R. Edson 
Tennis Courts for Sensible Service. 55 
Robert Stell 
Copyright, 1917, by Cotide Nast & Co., Inc. 
THE SMALL HOUSE NUMBER 
T he Small House Number is 
based on the theory that good 
goods come in little packages. 
Heretofore, the small house has 
universally been considered the cheap 
house. Because it was small and be¬ 
cause it was cheap, it could be for¬ 
given many lapses of good taste in 
its architecture and its furnishing. 
This fallacy will soon he exploded. 
Good taste is fast becoming common 
property and the man who does not 
exercise it in the construction and 
decoration of his little house, will 
soon enough be taboo. The small 
house should be a miniature of a big 
house, a simplification of a larger 
and more elaborate house, and the 
same discrimination that is employed 
in furnishing the expensive homes 
should be exercised in furnishing 
these palaces in parvo. 
Here, then, are good small houses, good interiors for small 
houses from which the prospective home builder can take her choice. 
An article on “The Stucco House” will consider that type—the 
most feasible for the money. “Small House Living Rooms” takes 
up the inside story. So does the article on using up waste corners 
for closets that really hold things. 
Many types of houses will be shown 
and many localities represented— 
stucco houses from a dozen different 
states, half timber houses. Colonial 
houses, portable houses, bungalows 
from California. 
The main feature of this issue will 
be three houses especially designed 
for this issue of House & Garden, by 
Aymar Embury 11, Eugene J. Lang 
and Frank Chouteau Brown. Plans, 
elevations and specifications will be 
shown so that the finished house can 
readily be visualized. The three 
architects making this contribution 
are well known for their work on 
small houses., House & Garden has 
never made so valuable an offering 
to its readers. 
Of the many gardening articles, 
space permits mention of only two: 
“The Old-Fashioned Garden,” a universally popular type, and 
Grace Tabor’s story of “The Best Blue Flowers.” They are 
both up to the high standard set by House & Garden gardening 
contributors—both make you ivant to make a garden and both tell 
you how to make it. 
The Colonial house, always a popular type, will 
be shoivn in varied forms in the July issue 
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