Contents, August 
Frontispiece: An Outdoor Bathing Pool 
Breaking Into the Farming Business . 
Our Eccentric Insect Neighbors . 
By Raymond L. Ditmars 
The Bathing Pool at the Country House . 
By Robert H. Van Court 
Homes That Architects Have Built for Themselves 
By Harold Donaldson Eberlein 
Growing III Weeds as Good Vegetables . 
By Mary Hamilton Talbott 
The Blooming at “Iristhorpe” . 
By Mary H. Northend 
Types of Garden Architecture . 
Planting the Winter Garden. 92 
By Grace Tabor 
Quality Crops. 96 
By D. R. Edson 
Water Gardening at a Minimum. 97 
By Elsie Grey Starr 
The Garden Club. 99 
The House of Mr. Charles Hernshein at West 
Orange, N. J. 100 
Inside the House . 102 
The August Wicker Call 
Get to Know the Meter 
Shopping Suggestions 
Garden Suggestions and Queries . 104 
Making the Soil Feed Itself 
Save on Your Flowers 
Fall Catalogs 
The Gardener’s Calendar. 105 
Editorial. 106 
McBRIDE, NAST & CO., - - - - Union Square, North, New York City 
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VOLUME XXVI NUMBER 2 
RICHARDSON WRIGHT, 
Managing Editor 
Copyright. 1914. by McBride, Nast b* Co. 
