MAY, 1916 
CONTENTS 
VOL. XXIX, NO. FIVE 
Cover Design by E. F. Betts-Baines 
Frontispiece . 10 
An English Garden Doorway 
Inside the Summer House. 11 
H. B. Sell 
The Residence of Charles M. Rice, Esq., at St. Louis, Mo . 14 
Lc Beaume & Klein, architects 
Quick Action Plants for Shade and Screens. 16 
D. R. Edson 
The Summer Pillows Come in Shoals. 17 
Celery—In Twelve Reels. IS 
I. M. Angell 
Editorial . 20 
In Praise of Apple Trees, by Arthur Guiterman 
A Nipponese Corner in America. 21 
J. F. Street, landscape architect 
The Beginner’s Rose Garden. 22 
Robert Stell 
The Bird Club Movement. 24 
Ernest Harold Baynes 
As the Japanese Arrange Their Flowers. 26 
In the Outdoors Living-room. 27 
Hwa Wang—King of Flowers..;. 28 
Grace Tabor 
Collecting Japanese Color Prints. 31 
Gaidner Teall 
Copyright, 1916 , by 
New Smocks for the Garden. 33 
Is Pattern Beauty?. 35 
Maud A. O’Harrow 
Nymphs and Fays Have Come Back Again. 36 
The Mid-Season Garden of Abundance. 37 
Adolph Kruhm 
All Hound and a Foot High. 39 
Williams Haynes 
M. D.’s to Trees. 40 
Making up the Dahlia Bed. 41 
J. K. Alexander 
Developing a City Garden. 42 
Elisabeth Leonard Strang 
Lengthen the Life of Your Lawn. 44 
C. A. LeClaire 
And These Will Lengthen Your Life on the Lawn. 45 
When You Come to Build That House. 46 
The Gardener’s Kalendar. 47 
Seen in the Shops.... 48 
Your All-Year Garden. 49 
F. F. Rockwell 
Cool Color Schemes for the Porch. 50 
Agnes Foster 
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One of the hundred and seventy illus¬ 
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GARDEN FURNISHING 
<1 The vogue for living out-of-doors has brought 
about gardens that are not alone pleasing to 
look at but comfortable to live in; and as reg¬ 
ularly as summer comes, the housewife turns 
her attention to making the garden living-room 
attractive. For her has been planned the Garden 
Furnishing number. 
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