SEPTEMBER. 1915 
VOL. XXVIII, No. 3 
Cover 
Photograph by Howard Hammitt 
Contents Design 
Photograph by Nathan R. Graves 
Frontispiece—“The House With the Bi.ue Bunds’’. . 10 
Electus D. Litchfield, architect 
A Good Country Ceub for the Small Town . 11 
William B. Powell 
“Old Faithful” . 15 
Williams Haynes 
The Naturalistic Arrangement of a City Property. 18 
Elsa Rehmann 
Your Saturday Afternoon Garden . 21 
D. R. Edson 
Heating and Ventilating the House . 22 
Charles Jablow, M. E. 
Efficiency in the Flower Garden . 25 
F. F. Rockwell 
A Colonial House Restored in Fabric and Spirit. ... 2G 
Antoinette Perrett 
Peonies as a Background for Annuals . 28 
Eloise Roorbach 
A Pink Garden of Individuality . 30 
E. E. Trumbull 
Building for Hospitality . 32 
Dalton Wylie 
The Balance Sheet of an Orchard . 35 
John Anthony 
The Summer Home of Mr. Pitts Duffield at Smith- 
town Bay, Long Island . 38 
Mann & MacNeille, architects 
Inside the House . 40 
Garden Suggestions and Queries . 42 
Editorial . 44 
conde nast. President 
Richardson wright, Editor 
GEORGE VON UTASSY 
Business Manager 
E. WALLACE BRAINARD 
Advertising Manager 
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