HOUSE AND GARDEN 
August, 
DU 
Have You Read "My Growing Garden” 
By J. HORACE McFARLAND 
This is the intimate story of a garden, which has been appearing as a serial of twelve parts, 
commencing with the January 1915 issue of THE COUNTRYSIDE MAGAZINE. 
This is written by a man who knows, and into the story has been woven the personal experience 
of years, told in the author’s easy style, making of it a fascinating narrative, where one meets 
the unexpected, either in discovery or achievement at almost every paragraph. These articles 
have been illustrated with beautiful half tone illustrations from photographs taken by the author 
and present some of the most beautiful garden scenes that have ever been printed. 
The following are the chapters which have already been printed: (1) The Prospect and the 
Place. (2) Planning and the Catalogs. (3) Getting into the Ground. (4) Planting of all Sorts. 
(5) Springs Buds and Blossoms. (6) The Feast of Flowers. 
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July — December, inclusive, and send you, without extra charge, the first six issues of 1915, con¬ 
taining Mr. McFarland’s story. 
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For the Beginning Housekeeper and the Bachelor Girl 
The Small Family Cook Book 
By MARY D. PRETLOW 
A new cookery book for the beginning housekeeper and for 
everyone who has to cater to two or three persons. It solves 
the difficulties imposed by the average cook book of reducing 
the quantities prescribed, to the limits required and at the 
same time retaining the essential piquancy of the recipe. 
This bock is fascinating in its suggestions and menus for 
afternoon teas, informal breakfasts, luncheons and congenial 
foregatherings of bachelor girls. 
With decorations by Rhoda Chase and Charles Guischard. 12mo. 75c. net. Postage 8c. 
McBRIDE, NAST & CO., Publishers, 31 Inion Square, Norlh, New York 
served to stay the iconoclastic hand of 
progress. To the architect, the principal 
interest in these old buildings is their 
forms, in which were expressed the su¬ 
preme effort of the artistic genius of our 
ancestors. A chapter on “Church Organi¬ 
zation in the Colonies” affords a concise 
summation of the historical beginnings of 
the bodies ecclesiastical in America. Mr. 
Embury has refrained from giving the 
bare, architectural appreciation of the 
forms of the hundred and twenty churches 
considered, and has given, in his consid¬ 
eration of each, an historic resume—es¬ 
tablished by the facts that brought the 
church into being. What form that build¬ 
ing took seems to have been a creation of 
each sect, as well as location. There was 
always an “Americanism" in ecclesiastical 
buildings. Moreover, early American 
church architecture was distinct from its 
predecessor across the water. 
Design in Landscape Gardening. By 
R. R. Root and C. T. Kelley. The Cen¬ 
tury Co. $5.00. 
The plan before the planting. This is a 
rule that gardeners—amateur and profes¬ 
sional alike — are beginning to apply. In 
landscape gardening the design is a sine 
qua non, and upon this very necessary 
subject is based the volume of Messrs. 
Root and Kelley. There has been a real 
need for a work that will sum up in a com¬ 
pact way the definite principles of design 
as applied to landscape gardening, a de¬ 
mand that this volume amply supplies. 
Here are discussed the elements of the art 
— architecture, sculpture, engineering, and 
such. Then design and color and plant¬ 
ing, each of which topic is later applied to 
such everyday problems as the American 
house, small places, school grounds, golf 
courses and country estates. The letter- 
press is clear and understandable, ar¬ 
ranged in practical form so that even the 
beginning gardener can find his special 
problem solved. The illustrations are ex¬ 
cellent, notably black and white sketches 
by Mr. Kelley, which, quite apart from 
their subject, show a striking individuality 
in workmanship. 
A valuable contribution to the literature 
of architecture is “A Guide to Gothic 
Architecture,” by T. Francis Bumpus, 
Dodd, Mead & Co., publishers. While 
the volume lacks nothing of thoroughness 
and scholarship, it is written in a tongue 
understood of the layman, and with no 
little charm. 
“Historic Homes of New England,” by 
Mary H. Northend, issued by Little, 
Brown & Co., tells of the old romances 
of old houses. Some of the houses are 
tenantless; others well preserved, but all 
storehouses of history, and, to the anti¬ 
quarian, constant sources of interest. 
Miss Northend has described these New 
England homes with much feeling and 
charm. The volume is well illustrated. 
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