House & Garden 
CONDE NAST, Publisher 
RICHARDSON WRIGHT, Editor 
Contents for July, 1919 . Volume XXXVI, No. One 
Cover Design by George Brandt 
Colonial Design and Construction. 10 
Frank J. Forster, Architect 
Early Summer in the Peony Border. 11 
John L. Rea 
A Dutch Colonial House for a Small Family. 14 
Frank J. Forster, Architect 
Ruralomania . 16 
Return .•. 16 
Rose Henderson 
The Revived Idea of Home. 17 
Collecting Antiques of Persia and India.• 18 
Gardner Teall 
A Small House for Three. 20 
Designed by Harry W. Knowlton 
Landscape Plans for the Small Place. 21 
Elizabeth Leonard Strang ■ 
The Cottages and Houses of French Canada. 24 
Ramsay Traquair, A. R. I. S. A. 
A House & Garden Country House. 26 
Designed by L. E. Macomber 
Period Styles in Old and New Desks.•. -28 
H. H. Bridges 
Architectural Paintings and Etchings. 30 
Peyton Boswell 
Color Schemes for Simple Bedrooms . 32 
Nancy Ashton 
The Embargo on Your Flower Garden . 34 
F. F. Rockwell 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors.-. 35 
Reviving the Decorative Panel. 38 
M. H. Northend 
The Vegetable Garden in July .•. 40 
W. C. McCollom 
A Suburban Home in the Italian Manner. 41 
Designed by W. R. Bajari 
Kettles, Pots and Pans.•. 42 
Eva Nagel Wolf 
Old Hardware for New Houses. 44 
Gertrude Campbell 
Plumbing for the Small House. 46 
W. C. Tucker 
Bathroom Accessories . 47 
The Gardener’s Calendar.•. 48 
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H ERE is an issue to read and re-read and 
then lay away for reference, because it 
is mainly about collectors and for col¬ 
lectors. And as almost everybody collects 
something and quite a number of collectable 
topics are covered, this August Antique Col¬ 
lector’s Number promises to be one of the 
bright magazine spots of your summer. 
The ancient lineage of collectors is discussed 
in “Collectors of Yesterday,” by Gardner 
Teall. It makes you one with Walpole, the 
De Medici, Rubens, La Pompadour and all 
that host of interesting folk who have col¬ 
lected. Harrison Cady, the artist, writes of 
collecting ship models. He is an ardent col¬ 
lector of models and speaks from broad ex¬ 
perience. Mrs. T. P. O’Connor tells the story 
of Irish glass. Who better could tell it than 
Mrs. T. P.? Jack Rose, who has been visit¬ 
ing country auctions these past ten years to 
his profit and enjoyment, tells the story of 
them in pictures and words. C. J. Charles, 
the eminent connoisseur and decorator, writes 
the history of the English room, which should 
interest both collectors and decorators. Then, 
just to make good measure, the Little Port¬ 
folio this time is filled with ancient instead 
of new rooms and is called The Little Portfolio 
of Old Interiors. Added to this are the views 
A glimpse of the American Empire 
dining room in the August issue 
of a dining room in a Boston residence re¬ 
stored in the American Empire style, a highly 
successful piece of work by Little & Browne. 
How to treat a bay window, a problem 
plenty of amateur decorators face, is explained 
on two pages of this August number. And 
there are also suggestions for the use of un¬ 
usual antique pieces in the dining room—prac¬ 
tical hints that can easily be carried out. 
There are two houses—both shown with 
plans that help visualize the rooms. One is 
an English half-timbered residence by W. S. 
Phillips, the other is a little Dutch Colonial 
cottage by Aymar Embury II. Modern in¬ 
teriors are shown in the views of the Richard 
Bennet House in New York City. 
Then there are the gardening sections of the 
issue. McCollom keeps you abreast of the 
month's work in the vegetable patch by his 
article, and among the flowers by the Gar¬ 
dener’s Calendar, and you see one of the prize 
gardens of the West. 
Those who would shop will find the page 
this month unusual. We are taking them by 
months—in July the bathroom, in August the 
nursery. Such an assortment of delectable fit¬ 
tings for the children’s room! 
And might we also mention that Arthur 
Guiterman has written a poem on Collectors 
and what should be done with them? And 
that Frank J. Forster has designed two garages 
for this number? And that the kitchen article 
considers glassware for cooking—a really read¬ 
able contribution to your kitchen lore 3 
