DAIXOSY 
SERVANTS' 
ROOM 
13' x 14' 
LANDING 
TOILET 
BEDROOM 
12M4' 
BATH 
BEDROOM 
14''i5’ 
BEDROOM 
SEWING 
ROOM 
BALCONY 
The basement billiard room and the separate toilet on the second floor are unusual features of the plan. 
THIRD FLOOR 
SCALE, IN FEET 
reran I i i? 
O 5 10 15 20 
BASEMENT- 
BILLIARD 
ROOM 
15'6"» 25’ 
HALL 
» 
SECOND FLOOR 
COAL 
stretching across the entire forty feet of front, with balus¬ 
trades of close clipped privet, bounded by brick posts. A 
typical “stoop,” with its two little side-seats, shelters the 
doorway; a more ample porch runs around the side and rear. 
Within, after passing the redwood vestibule, is a wide 
hall, ivory-white, with mahogany-tinted rails and doors. 
To the left is a large library, with built-in book-cases and 
wide fireplace; a smaller “den,” to the rear, in a cluster 
of casement windows, has also its book-shelves, and its 
quaint, spade-shaped fireplace. On the other side comes 
the ample dining-room, with its china-closets and fireplace. 
Beyond is the kitchen wing, well cut off from the rest of 
the house by a wide pantry and servant’s stairway. 
On the second floor are three large bedrooms, a sewing- 
room, servant’s room, bathroom (with separate toilet- 
room) and linen-room; with ample closets and lockers. 
On the third, are two more large rooms. One is a nursery, 
with rows of toy-lockers under the eaves along both sides, 
and a big fireplace at the end. Also, there is a large 
storeroom, amply lighted — a possible future bedroom. 
From the main hall a wide stairway leads down to the 
basement; here is a large billiard-room, with beamed 
ceiling, brick-paved floor, and erratic mosaics of Egyptian 
poker games, skeleton pool players, and other weird 
things, done in red and white bricks on its walls; 
while a huge fireplace sprawls across one side. The 
rest of the cellar has a cement floor, and holds coal-bins, 
heater, clothes-dryer, and so on. 
The woodwork, except the halls, is North Carolina pine, 
inexpensive, yet attractive wood, all stained dark, in the 
soft tones of old walnuts and mahoganies. 
And now, as to the cost; the entire house complete, with 
the very best of plumbing, lighting, vapor-heating, hard¬ 
ware, and all terrace grading, and so on, is being built at 
an actual contract price of a little less than sixty-four 
hundred dollars. Absolutely the only things not included 
are the hedges, two of the mantels, and the electric-fixtures. 
No papering will be needed; the walls are sand-finished. 
A $100 Hardy Garden 
BY HUGO ERICHSEN 
{See next page for plans and planting lists) 
r T' v HE purchase of an adjoining lot, of the same size as 
-*• the one I already possessed, 50 x 147 feet, was the 
immediate reason why I decided to devote the whole plot 
of 100 x 147 feet to a hardy garden. I knew that a definite 
plan would be required in order to achieve satisfactory 
results, so I applied to well known landscape architects in 
Massachusetts, briefly stating my wants and outlining a 
list of hardy plants that would give a maximum of effect 
with minimum labor — the average townsman’s need. 
The result was not exactly what I had anticipated. 
The design submitted for my approval was for a formal 
garden. Although beautiful, it did not answer my require¬ 
ments. With me a formal garden was out of the question, 
because I did not have the time to take care of it myself 
and could not afford to hire a competent gardener for the 
purpose. My only reason for reproducing the plan and 
planting list in this connection is because it is an excellent 
example of formal landscape gardening as applied to the 
space mentioned and may be just the thing some fellow 
amateur gardener is looking for. 
In due time, another plan was sent me — this time of a 
natural garden — that was so well adapted to my wants 
that it was eventually carried out in almost every detail. 
Prices differ according to the size and condition of the 
plants, but if one is content to wait a year or two and to 
put up with small plants instead of those producing an 
immediate effect, the sum total of executing the plan given 
can be brought well within the figures given in the heading. 
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