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Smmher, 10 III 
Cover Design: "The Fire Corner" 
From a photograph by C. H. Claudy 
Contents Design : Mistletoe 
Photograph by Nathan R. Graves 
Gardening Without Soil. 
By I. M. Angell 
Characteristic Staircase Types. 
Photographs by F. A. Walter and others 
Frontispiece: The Home of Dr. W. W. Gilchrist, St. Martin's, Pa. 
Edmund B. Gilchrist, architect 
Photograph by Phillip B. Wallace 
1 he Country Home of a Composer... ^39 
By John Lynne Grey 
Making Gift Plants Bloom Again. 
By F. F. Rockwell 
Enclosed Porches . 
...... 344 
Photographs by J. T. Beals, M. H. Northend and others 
& 
Plaster Casts in Home Decoration.■. 
By Russell Fisher 
How One Man Solved the Lighting Problem 
By Katharine Lord 
Why You Should Have a Workshop and How. 352 
By Jared Stuyvesant 
What the Period Styles Really Are — III.’. 354 
By Lucy Abbott Throop 
The Restoration of an Ohio Farmhouse. 357 
By Winifred T. Pendleton 
Double-page Illustration: “Winter”. 360-361 
Photograph by E. J. Hall 
The Lowly Footstool . 362 
By Katherine Pope 
A House at Yonkers, N. Y., Built for Mr. W. A. Boland. 364 
Eugene J. Lang, architect 
Photographs by Herbert E. Angell 
The Home of Mr. F. M. Summerville, architect, Ridgewood, N. J. 365 
350 
Inside the House . 
366 
White Wall Papers 
Mission Clocks 
Newel-post Tops of Cut Glass 
Driftwood 
A Permanent Vacuum Cleaner 
A Home-made Corner Bookcase 
Garden Suggestions and Queries 
368 
December In Vegetable and Flower Gardens 
Is It Worth While Growing Heliotrope Successfully 
Things to Do Now For Christmas Time—and After 
Ingenious Devices : Labor-saving Schemes and Short Cuts in the 
House and in the Garden. 370 
Nature Through a City Backyard. 375 
By Daniel H. Overton 
Birthday Trees . 382 
By W. C. Egan 
Putty-Color The Practical Poultry Nest Distemper: Its Cure 
HENRY IT. SAYLOR, Editor 
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