October, 19:5 
9 
OCTOBER 
19 15 
CONTENTS 
Vol. XXVIII 
No. Four 
Cover—Garden of “Brookside,” Home of William Hall 
Walker, Esq., at Great Barrington, Mass. 
Photograph by Herbert I. Angell. 
Frontispiece — The Hall at “Eolia,” Goshen Point, New 
London, Conn. 10 
James Gamble Rogers, architect 
The Tradition and Purpose of Painted Furniture. 11 
Elsie de IVolfe 
The Bulbs to Plant Now for Holiday Blooming. 15 
Eloise Roorbach 
The Home of Ralph W. Harrison, Esq., at Sewickley, Pa... 16 
MacClure & Sphar, architects 
Your Hunting Companions. 18 
Warren H. Miller 
The Last Crop Work Out of Doors. 20 
D. R. Edson 
Lighting the Old House and the New. 21 
Clara Brown Lyman 
Oriental Rugs . 23 
Vincent Yardum 
A Formal Terraced Garden by the Sea. 26 
Allen & Collins, architects 
New Furniture and Reproductions of thf. Old . 28 
October Planting to Save Six Months. 29 
F. F. Rockzvell 
“Farnsworth," Home of C. K. G. Billings, Esq., at Oyster 
Bay, Long Island. 32 
Guy Lowell, architect 
What Every Kitchen Needs. 34 
Cecil F. Baker 
The Collectors’ Department of Antiques and Curios. 37 
Conducted by Gardner Tcall 
The House of William C. Cheney, Esq., at South Man¬ 
chester, Conn. 38 
A. Raymond Ellis, architect 
The House of R. M. Ellis, Esq., at Great Neck, L. 1. 39 
Aymar Embury II., architect 
The Finish and Care of Old Furniture. 40 
Abbot McClure & H. D. Eberlein 
A Housing Experiment in Stuttgart. 41 
/. J. Klaber 
Fabrics for the Dining-room. 44 
Conservatories for the Modern Home. 45 
May W. Mount 
Seen in the Shops. 48 
Garden Suggestions and Queries. 50 
Conducted by F. F. Rockwell 
Interior Decorations . 51 
Conducted by Agnes Foster 
Editorial . 52 
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The November House & Garden will be about the busiest issue 
you have seen. B. Russell Herts, who wrote “The Furnishing and 
Decoration of Apartments,” tells how to create space in small rooms. 
William Odom, director of the Department of Interior Architecture 
and Decoration in the New York School of Fine 
and Applied Arts, writes on “Historical Furniture 
Styles in the Modern Room.” Fanny Sage Stone, 
who will be remembered for ‘‘Cloverly and the 
House Next Door,” contributes a story of the 
old world in the new—“The Little Side Path 
to Bohemia.” E. I. Farrington, author of “The 
Home Poultry Book,” tells amateurs how to build 
a poultry house and how much it costs. In 
“Counting the Cost” is the beginning of an 
“experience” serial with pages from a human 
document of a man and woman who went back 
to the land. Williams Haynes is in again with 
his lively doggy talk-—this time a neutral article 
on the allied bulls—French and English. These 
are only a few of the articles. The pictures are 
too numerous to mention. 
By the way, the other day we heard an unwary 
critic of the magazines of The House & Gar¬ 
den type declare that they all lacked author¬ 
itative contributors. We can’t answer for the 
other publications, but we can vouch that between 
them the sixteen contributors to the Novem¬ 
ber House & Garden have aggregated books on 
their specialized subjects to the total of twenty- 
eight. 
Door to Self-House 
H. M. Bowdoin, architect 
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