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February, 1921 
House & Garden 
CONDE NAST, Publisher 
RICHARDSON WRIGHT, Editor 
R. S. LEMMON, Managing Editor 
THE SPRING GARDENING GUIDE 
O F course, one really never stops working 
in the garden. Ice and snow have no ter¬ 
ror; the work goes on just the same. Much 
of it is paper or greenhouse work—mainly paper, 
for the time to put the final touch to the plans 
for this year’s garden is in February and March. 
That is why House & Garden’s big spring garden¬ 
ing number is dated so early. The scheme of it 
is to provide information on the planting and 
maintenance of gardens which will be of service to 
both beginner and experienced alike. A lot of it is 
cold, hard facts; a lot, inspiration. Both are nec¬ 
essary. 
The gardens around Bar Harbor, with which 
the issue opens, may appear simply inspirational 
until readers who live in that latitude or under 
comparatively the same conditions begin to make 
gardens, when they find these pictures of the ut¬ 
most practical importance. So are the pages show¬ 
ing the trellised garden and the truly remarkable 
English topiary garden that was grown to full 
perfection in a slight thirty years. To this issue 
Mrs. Francis King contributes another of her de¬ 
lightful and helpful gardening articles. There 
will also be a definitive and comprehensive article 
on dahlias and on another page the problems of 
how to obtain, select and manage a gardener are 
discussed. 
To make the practical gardening complete are 
the three pages of the Spring Planting Guide, in 
which the whole story of beginning and handling 
flowers, vines, shrubs and vegetables is tabulated 
in concise form. In addition to this is the com¬ 
plete planting table for a shrubbery border. 
In all there will be seven houses displayed, one 
by Charles Platt, a Long Island farmhouse type; 
a moderate sized English house of Georgian char¬ 
acter, designed by Richardson & Gill, the Prince 
of Wales’ architects, and five smaller houses in a 
group ranging from a comfortable country home 
in Seattle to tiny suburban houses situated in 
the East. 
For those whose interest is primarily the inside 
of the house come a page of curtain designs, the 
decorative use of candles and candle lighting, the 
charm of porcelain birds, and, of course, the Little 
Portfolio, which will contain some really remark¬ 
able interiors. The Collector’s article, seeing as 
St. Patrick’s Day comes in March, is on Irish 
silver. 
Among the Bar Harbor gardens 
in the March number will be this 
one designed by Mrs. Farrand 
Contents for February , 1921. 
Volume XXXIX, No. Two 
Cover Design by H. George Brandt 
Architecture and People. 
Transplanting Architecture . 
Edward T. Larkins 
Orchard Farm, White Plains, N. Y. 
Frank J. Forster, Architect 
On Keeping White Elephants. ... 
The Chinese Feeling. 
The Past of Crown Derby. 
Gardner Teall 
An Italian Garden of Content. 
H. D. Eberlein and R. B. C. M. Carrere 
A Detail Worthy of Enrichment. ...... 
Harry C. Richardson 
A New England Garden by the Sea. 
Curtains That One Remembers. 
Margaret McElroy 
Magnolias to Bloom in the Spring. 
E. Bade 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. ... 
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The Garden Swimming Pool. 
Charles Alma Byers 
Why' Go to Switzerland?. 
When the Frame Fits the Picture. 
Peyton Boswell 
A Group of Three Houses... 
Julius Gregory, and Buchman & Kahn, Architects 
The Axis in Garden Design .. 
Richard H. Pratt 
Groups in the Large Hall. 
Decorating Your Own Furniture... 
Ethel Davis Seal 
Three Types of Gardens. 
Polishing Your Water Supply'. 
Ethel R. Peyser 
Doorways to Cotswold Houses. 
A Garage and Service House.. 
Buchman & Kahn, Architects 
Mirrors for Many Places. 
The Gardener’s Calendar. 
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be effected in less than one month. 
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