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House & Garden 
SPEAKING OF SEPTEMBER 
R EADERS often ask us, “Where do you get 
all the pictures you show in House & 
Garden?” And we usually answer, “Oh, we 
pick 'em up here and there.” But that is only a 
gentle bluff, because we have to pick up something 
like over a hundred pictures for each issue and 
good pictures do not grow on every bush. It isn't 
just done with a flip of the hand; it’s hard work 
and sometimes the old game of finding the needle 
in the haystack is tame compared with it. 
For a matter of fact, from twenty-five to fifty 
pictures pass across this desk each day. One or 
two will be chosen, and tucked away as the nucleus 
for a group. Scouts in a dozen different countries 
and from almost every State in the Union report 
this house and that garden which is photograph- 
able and up to our standards. A photographer 
"shoots” it and then maybe it isn't the sort of 
thing we want, so into the discard it goes and we 
try again. 
Once in a while—once in a great while—some¬ 
thing comes unannounced and unheralded through 
the mails. But these occasions are rare. In the 
majority of cases each page or each article is de¬ 
liberately schemed out—and then we sail forth to 
find those pictures or those objects that can be 
photographed to illustrate it. When these ob- 
One of the pleasantest de¬ 
tails of some types of 
houses is the fanlight over 
the entrance door. This is 
one of quite a number 
shown in September 
jects don’t exist, an artist is called in and creates 
them according to our plans. 
But there’s more to the artist's work than that. 
If all the pages of an issue were plastered with 
photographs, you’d be bored with them before 
you reached the Gardener’s Calendar. We inter¬ 
sperse line cuts here and there as a relief to the 
eye. Moreover, there are many things that simply 
won't photograph successfully—oil stoves, for 
example, or sinks. 
Then after we get the pictures, what happens? 
They go to a layout man, and together we talk 
over which picture can be “played up” large and 
which should be "held down” small. By and by 
he evolves a scheme or schemes for the page. 
When the satisfactory one is finally chosen, the 
photographs are measured, the borders drawn, and 
the pictures started down to the engraver, which 
is the first step toward bringing them into the 
range of your eyes. 
Now speaking of September, we have, on this 
20th day of June, which is our birthday, deliv¬ 
ered into the hands of the layout man an impres¬ 
sive stack of illustrations for that number. He 
likes them very much. So do we. Somehow, 
we believe you are going to like them too. They 
will arrive at the newsstands August 23rd. 
Contents for August, 1922. 
Cover Design by Bradley W. Tomlin 
Rain Before Seven. 29 
Concentrated Decoration. 30 
Chester A. Paterson, Architect 
The Eternal Kitchen. 31 
Ruby Ross Goodnow 
Plants for a Green City Garden. 34 
Ming a Pope Duryea 
Meals That Are Easily Eaten.,. 36 
Sarah Field Splint 
A Remodeled City House. 37 
Frank J. Forster, Architect 
The Imari Ware of Japan. 38 
Gardener Teall 
Flowers of the Rainbow. 40 
Harold II. Scudder 
A Decorated Entrance Hall. 41 
Allyn Cox, Mural Artist 
The Home of Henry Sampson, Douglas Manor, L. 1. 42 
William A. Dominick, Architect 
Using Colored Oilcloth. 44 
Agnes Foster Wright 
The Uses and Beauties of Brown. 46 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. 47 
H. T. Lindeberg, Architect 
Volume XLI1, IVo. Two 
An Enclosed Tennis Court. SO 
Dwight James Baum, Architect 
How to Alter the Color of Floors. 51 
Operating on Trees. 52 
John Davey 
Coming On Books Unexpectedly.•. 54 
Montrose J. Moses 
Doors of Old Spain in Modern California. 56 
A Group of Four Houses. 57 
If You Are Going to Build. 60 
Mary Fanton Roberts 
Equipping the Kitchen. 62 
August Emphasizes Cool Shower Baths. 64 
Ethel R. Peyser 
Five Decorative Bay Windows. 66 
The Italian Spirit in a Remodeled City House. 67 
Frank J. Forster, Architect 
A City Garden in Denver. 68 
De Boer & Pesman, Landscape Architects 
Pyrethrums for Formal and Informal Gardens. 69 
John L. Rea 
Seen in the Shops for the Kitchen. 70 
The Gardener’s Calendar. 72 
Subscribers are notified that no change of address can 
be effected in less than one month. 
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