APRIL, 1916 
CONTENTS 
VOL. XXIX, NO. FOUR 
Cover Design by Robert McQuinn 
Frontispiece . 10 
Garden view of the Residence of Mrs. J. Clifton Edgar, at 
Greenwich, Connecticut 
The Choice of a Style for a Country House. 11 
Gardner Teall 
The Garden at “Krishf.im,” St. Martins, Philadelphia, Pa- 14 
Houses with Their Backs to the Street. 16 
Rollin Lynde Hartt 
Editorial . 18 
In a Garden of Granada, hy Thomas Walsh 
The Columbus Room at “Font Hill,” Doylestown, Pa. 19 
With Much Taste and Little Money. 20 
Mary K. Ford 
For the Flowers that Bloom in the Spring. 22 
Your Woodland Annex. 23 
Samuel J. Record 
Growing the Modern Gladiolus... 25 
M. Emerson Main 
The Gentleman’s Terrier. 27 
Williams Haynes 
The Best Shrubs for All Places. 28 
Grace Tabor 
Plans for a Summer House Kitchen. 30 
Cecil F. Baker, architect 
Copyright, 1916, by 
The Book’s the Thing. 31 
Abbott McClure and H. D. Eberlein 
Early Lace-Making in America. 33 
Mabel F. Bainbridge 
Two Bungalows of Interesting Lines and Moderate Cost. 35 
Making New Gardens. 36 
F. F. Rockwell 
The House an Architect Built for Himself. 38 
Efficiency Standards for the Tomato Patch. 40 
Adolph Kruhm 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. 41 
Beau Brummels of the Poultry World. 44 
E. I. Farrington 
Leaders in the International Flower Show, New York. 46 
Let Them Have a Garden!. 47 
Olive Flyde Foster 
The Gardener’s Kalendar. 48 
A Summer Home of English Precedents... 49 
Caretto & Forster, architects 
Seen in the Shops. 50 
Your All-Year Garden. 52 
F. F. Rockwell 
Fabrics as Fresh as Spring Itself.7.. 53 
Agnes Foster 
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A Garden Doorway Shown in the 
May Number 
SUMMER FURNISHING 
•I In May you begin to do either one of two 
things—summer furnish your home or fur¬ 
nish your summer home. For both problems the 
May number brings a host of suggestions—de¬ 
lectable cottage furniture of the very latest line 
and tint, wicker willow for the porch and the 
lawn, shoals of pillows of the sort you heap 
high in Cape Cod hammocks, inexpensive cur¬ 
tains and all the little accessories that bring 
summer into the house. For the gardening miss 
comes a page of smocks and hats fresh from 
their creator’s hands. And to help her make that 
garden more livable, practical hints on grow¬ 
ing peonies; on starting a rose garden—which is 
quite simple and quite inexpensive; on grow¬ 
ing shade plants and vines around the porch. 
<J A garden without birds is almost as had as a 
garden without flowers. Ernest Harold Baynes, 
the Big Brother of the Birds, tells you how to 
attract them to your garden and make them 
your friends. 
CJ These, and a host more of ideas are in the 
May number. Doesn’t it sound tempting? 
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