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House & Garden 
CONDE NAST, Publisher 
RICHARDSON WRIGHT, Editor 
R. S. LEMMON, Managing Editor 
AS TO INTERIOR DECORATIONS 
I T is said that there are more nervous break¬ 
downs among interior decorators than in any 
other calling. An amazing mass of details go 
to make up each completed article. Assembling a 
decoration issue of House & Garden is not unlike 
that. There are so many possible things that ought 
to be spoken of or explained or exhibited that the 
task is bewildering. And yet, as this April number 
begins to take shape in the proof book, it seems 
that a great number of subjects have been covered 
in its pages. 
There is that first article on the newer forms of 
curtains by Ruby Ross Goodnow. The last word 
in curtain design and fabric is explained. Or the 
article on satinwood, one of the more decorative 
forms of antique furniture. Or the story of chintz, 
by Aaron Davis, a well-known fabric authority, 
in which chintzes old and new are displayed and 
explained. Or the five pages of interiors, show¬ 
ing a great variety of rooms in both America 
and England, all of them the work of representa¬ 
tive architects and decorators. Or, finally,—for 
we must stop somewhere,—the page of chair legs 
of the French periods, an invaluable guide. These 
are only a few of the many decorating suggestions 
A house on a hillside is among 
the illustrations of the April 
number 
in this issue, a few of the details that go to make 
up the completed number now being assembled. 
For April brings other interests besides decorat¬ 
ing. Garden, for instance. Here are two pages of 
garden gates, quite unusual. Beyond, is a remarka¬ 
ble garden. Farther on the Editor of the American 
Rose Annual writes of new single roses. Beyond 
that we come to an article on boxwood, then one on 
garden walls and shelters and finally an excellent 
little contribution on delphiniums by Frank Gals¬ 
worthy, the English flower painter and brother of 
John, the novelist. 
Of the houses that will inspire prospective build¬ 
ers is a beautiful little design in Wilmington, Dela¬ 
ware, a Georgian house from England and the 
group of small houses which has become a feature 
now of the magazine. 
In addition to these—yes, there are more things— 
is the discussion on collecting American pottery 
and the page of bird houses and the household 
equipment contribution on brushes and, for a last 
filip, the new designs in country house writing 
paper. 
You see, it is not merely an interior decoration 
number. 
Contents for March, 1921. 
Cover Design by H. Geo. Brandt 
A Study in Garden Textures. 22 
Some Gardens At Bar Harbor . 23 
Mervin James Curl 
The Home of Meredith Hare, Huntington, L. 1. 26 
Charles A. Platt, Architect 
The Spring and Fall of Man. 28 
When You Think of a House in the Country. 29 
Charles A. Platt, Architect 
The Old Silver of Erin... 30 
Gardner Teall 
How to Make Livable Rooms of Green. 32 
Ethel Davis Seal 
Random Notes in My Garden . 33 
Mrs. Francis King 
A Latticed Forecourt.. 34 
Prentice Sanger, Landscape Architect 
The Quality of Candle Light. 36 
Leonard Chittenden 
Trees and the House... 37 
Brown & Whitesides, Architects 
Volume XXXIX, No. Three 
The Planting for the House Foundation. 38 
Charles S. Le Sure 
Consider the Gardener. 40 
Ellen P. Cunningham 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors... 41 
Experiences With Dahlias. 44 
Josiah T. Marean 
The Garden of R. P. Snelling, Beverly Farms, Mass. 46 
Rose Standish Nichols, Landscape Architect 
House & Garden’s Gardening Guide. 47 
American Antiques in Italy. SO 
H. D. Eberlevn and Robert B. C. M. Carrere 
At the Foot of the Bed. 52 
A Group of Five Small Houses. S3 
The Decorative Quality of Pottery Birds. 56 
Margaret McElroy 
The Knife Life of the Kitchen. 58 
Ethel R. Peyser 
To Help the Flowers Bloom in the Spring. 59 
The Gardener’s Calendar. 60 
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