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Contents September, 1914 
Frontispiece: 
Photograph by Agnes Foster. 
The Color of a California Garden. 131 
By Charles Francis Saunders. 
A Wee Bit O’ Scotch . 135 
By Williams Haynes. 
Decorating a Boy’s Room. 138 
By Charles Vaughn Boyd. 
How to Plant a Paper Garden . 140 
By Ruth MacFarland Furniss. 
Cutting Off That Undesirable View. 142 
By I. M. Angell. 
“Over There” . 143 
By Grace Tabor. 
The Winter Care of Dahlias . . . 146 
By Martha Prentice Strong. 
Breaking Into the Farming Business . 147 
The Garden Club . 150 
The Available Hardy Vines . 151 
By F. F. Rockwell. 
Swinging the Farm Gate. 153 
By Charles Edward Hooper. 
Three Kitchens of Effectiveness and Efficiency . 155 
Quality Crops . 157 
• By D. R. Edson. 
The House of Bee Wilson Dodd at New Haven, Conn. . . 158 
The House of Stanton P. Lee, at Troy, New York . 159 
Inside the House. 160 
About Lamps and Shades. 
The Return of the Jacobean. 
Refrigeration Without Ice. 
Garden Suggestions and Queries . 162 
Preparing for Winter. 
Harvest Early. 
Seedlings in Frames. 
Editorial . 164 
McBRIDE, NAST & CO., - - Union Square North, New York City 
Robert M. McBride, President; Conde Nast, Vice-President and Treasurer; Frederick 
A. Leland, Secretary; John T. Elsroad, Assistant 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, under act of March 3, 1879. 
VOLUME XXVI NUMBER 3 
RICHARDSON WRIGHT, 
Managing Editor 
Copyright. 1914, by McBride, Nast & Co. 
