House & Garden 
COND'E NAST, Publisher 
RICHARDSON, WRIGHT. Kditor 
FALL PLANTING IN OCTOBER 
T HE summer is over. Now is the time 
we have to face more serious problems, 
and our interests are wider and more vital 
than during the lazy summer months. But 
these problems do not have to be faced alone. 
House & Garden stands ready to assist in 
smoothing out those very problems. And the 
October number does much more than merely 
assist. There are articles that stimulate the 
imagination and open up new vistas of in¬ 
terest that make this issue one you cannot 
possibly afford to miss. 
Just when you think the work in the garden 
is about over, comes this Fall planting number 
with its plans and suggestions for continuing 
the work and interest of that very garden. 
There is a Fall planting table that will be of 
inestimable value to garden lovers and impor¬ 
tant information on the available bulbs. Nor 
is that all. There is an article on the Winter 
Garden by Robert Stell and an exquisite 
picture of an Evening Garden of Fragrance by 
Elizabeth Leonard Strang. The Rock Garden 
is not neglected and suggestions for its con¬ 
struction, planting and care are supplied by 
Frances E. Rehfeld. 
But do not think the garden monopolizes 
this October number. Never has the house 
loomed so interesting. Furniture—that all-ab¬ 
sorbing topic in the making of a home! What 
Rock Gardens are among the topics 
in the Fall Planting Number 
You Ought to Know About Furniture, by 
Matlack Price, treats of the practical side of 
furniture and is a resume of what you ought 
to know before buying. Then there is some¬ 
thing about the little couch end tables that 
have so much interest and charm, and also an 
article on French furniture. So if you are 
contemplating a new chair or perhaps another 
table, you will realize the value of the October 
House & Garden. 
Much more than the furniture of the house 
is taken up in this unusual number. Gardner 
Teall contributes one of his rare articles on 
collecting—this time it is the Outside of a 
Book, and the mere title weaves its spell of 
romance, conjuring up visions of an art that 
goes back to the beginnings of things. Equally 
exceptional is the story of early American por¬ 
traits told by Peyton Boswell. Here again the 
charm of the past is brought vividly before 
our eyes. 
Then the practical side of the house. Mak¬ 
ing window curtains by Agnes Foster Wright 
and the electrical boudoir are articles that no 
woman will be able to resist. 
The series of dog articles continues in this 
issue. This time it is the Airedale and Irish 
terriers. In addition to all this, there is an 
article on heating systems, much information 
about the kitchen and over a hundred illustra¬ 
tions. Lastly—lest we forget—the editorial is 
on Theodore Roosevelt. This is the October 
House & Garden. Can you afford to miss it ? 
Contents for September, 1919. 
Cover Design by H. George Brandt 
A Debt to Italy. 14 
C. P. H. Gilbert, Architect 
French Wall Furniture of the 16th and 17th Centuries. .. IS 
It. D. Eberlein &■ Abbot McClure 
The Residence of C. F. T. Seaverns, Esq., Hartford, Ct. 18 
Goodwin, Bullard & Woolsey, Architects 
Is Leisure a Lost Art?. 20 
The Visitor . 20 
Robert Nichols 
The Approach to the House. 21 
Goodwin, Bullard & Woolsey, Architects 
The Limpid Loveliness of Rock Crystal . 22 
Gardner Teall 
The Art of Hanging Pictures. 24 
Rooms in the New York Apartment of Alfred C. Bossom, 
Architect . 26 
New Fall Fabrics. 27 
A Remodeled Pennsylvania Farmhouse. 28 
Duhring, Okie & Ziegler, Architects 
The Signs of the Zodiac in Decoration. 30 
S. D. McCrea 
The Residence or L. P. Leas, Esq., Overbrook, Pa. 32 
Charles Barton Keen, Architect 
Volume XXXVI, No. Three 
The Ventilation of the House. 33 
Frank Chouteau Brown 
Decorating the Office. 34 
A Living and Dining Room Combined. 36 
Ethel Davis Seal 
Landscape Gardening and a Definite Plan. 38 
Robert Stell 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. 39 
Using Sculpture in the Home. 42 
Peyton Boswell 
In an Italian Garden. 44 
Window's That Give Character to a Faqade. 46 
Mr. George Rime's Home at Great Neck, L. 1. 47 
Aymar Embury 11, Architect 
The Electrocution of Laundry Day. 48 
Ethel R. Peyser 
The Electrical Breakfast. SO 
A Super-Dog with a Primitive Streak. 51 
Robert S. Lemmon 
Concealing the Radiator. 52 
Costen Fitz-Gibbon 
Nearing the End of the Vegetable Season. 54 
William C. McCollom 
Occasional Furniture . 55 
The Gardener’s Calendar. 56 
Copyright, 1919, by Conde Nast & Co., Inc. 
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