Contents for February, 1918. Volume XXXIII, No. Two 
House & Garden 
CONDE NAST, Publisher 
RICHARDSON WRIGHT, Editor 
Cover Design by Charles Livingston Bull 
Frontispiece—Interior Architectural Woodwork. 10 
Harry F. Little, Architect 
An Architectural Epigram . 11 
C. Matlack Price 
Begin the Day in a Breakfast Room. 14 
Harriet P. Dean 
The Hardest Kind of Patriotism. 16 
Directions to the Ultimate Landlord. 16 
Willard Wattles 
Unsuspected Garden Corners. 17 
Henry G. Morse, Architect 
The Bookplates of Booklovers. 19 
Gardner Teall 
A Small English House. 20 
Carctto & Forster, Architects 
Putting Good Taste into the Movies. 22 
Garden Backgrounds . 23 
The Residence of Frederick Dana Marsh, Esq., 
New Rochelle, N. Y . 24 
Henry G. Morse, Architect 
Giving the Garden a Running Start. 26 
F. F. Rockwell 
ThE Best Purple and Lavender Flowers. 27 
Grace Tabor 
Harmony in Furniture Combinations. 28 
Agnes Foster Wright 
The Possibilities of Wallboard. 29 
V. B. Shore 
When the Vase Is Part of the Flower Picture. 30 
Copyright, 1918 , by 
How to Buy Fireplace Fixtures. 31 
Dudley H. Clulow 
A Closet for Everything. 32 
Winnifred Fales and Mary H. Northend 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. 33 
War Garden Activities in the Small Town. 36 
Olive Hyde Foster 
The Color of Interior Woodwork. 37 
Harry F. Little, Architect 
Spanish Tables and Seating Furniture of the 16tii and 17th 
Centuries . 38 
H. D. Eberlein and Abbot McClure 
Inviting Entrances to the House. 40 
The Map as a Wall Decoration. 41 
Costen Fitz-Gibbon 
Curtaining the Arched Window. 42 
The Care of Leather Furniture. 42 
W. W. Burbank 
Exterior Lattice That Enlivens Walls. 43 
Seen in the Shops. 44 
The Unusual in Door Stops. 46 
A Variety of Paint and Stain Finishes. 46 
Mary Worthington 
Chests, Hutches and the Chairs That Group With Them. .. 47 
The War Garden Department. 48 
D. R. Edson 
A Cottage and a Lesser Country House. 49 
Kenneth Dalzell and W. T. Merchant, Architects 
The Gardener’s Kalendar. 50 
Vogue Company 
THE SPRING GARDENING GUIDE 
O NCE again we stand at the threshold cf 
an old institution—the annual Spring 
Gardening Guide. For years that has been 
the title of the March number of House & 
Garden, a sort of pivot on which our magazine 
wheel revolves. 
This year we are making a special effort to 
help you do your part in winning the war by 
the products of the soil. For it is your garden 
and your efforts that are going to count toward 
the food supply. So in March there will be seven 
pages of packed, tabulated, illustrated facts on 
just what to plant and how to make it succeed. 
Three of these pages have to do with planting 
instructions, while the other four will deal ex¬ 
clusively with the control of plant insects and dis¬ 
eases, in a way that is new and more helpful than 
anything of the sort we have ever attempted before. 
Not only are the descriptions and directions ade¬ 
quate, but we have gone even further and will 
show by photographs many of the garden pests and 
the actual operations of combating them. These 
pictures have been taken specially for us by a prac- In the garden of an artist, which will 
tical gardener who is also an expert photographer. appear m the March issue 
Then there is an article on testing your own soil, 
and a lot of pertinent pointers in the War Garden 
Department. All these have to do primarily with 
the utilitarian food side of the garden. In order 
that the mind as well as the stomach may be fed, 
and that flowers as well as vegetables and fruit 
may enter into the menu, we have included an 
article on sweet peas, another on garden vistas, 
a third on a famous Swedish garden, and a fourth 
on beautifying the vegetable plot. And last (we 
have saved this as the grand climax) Richard Le 
Gallienne contributes one of his charming essays 
under the title “The Soul of the Garden. Alto¬ 
gether there are upward of eighteen pages devoted 
to garden matters. 
The house hasn’t been neglected, of course. A 
page of new fabrics and another of mirrors, paved 
floors and galleries, curtain bindings, the third 
installment of the Spanish furniture series, how 
to buy pictures, half a dozen good houses of as 
many types, the Little Portfolio of Good Interiors 
_the list is long. We think that we have assem¬ 
bled a rather good issue; in another month 
you can judge for yourself as to the correctness 
cf our opinion. 
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