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July, 1921 
House & Garden 
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CONDE NAST, Publisher 
RICHARDSON WRIGHT, Editor 
R. S. LEMMON, Managing Editor 
A FOREWORD ON 
AUGUST 
I T doesn't seem fair to write these forewords for 
future issues; it is too much like peeking at 
your presents before Christmas morning. Be¬ 
sides, the articles that may be glowingly described 
in these chill and rainy days of May may not be 
so interesting after all in the hot and sleeping 
afternoons of August. We can’t help enthusing 
about this August number, however, because it is 
so full of editorial high spots. 
One of the presents House & Garden received 
for becoming twenty-one in July was an extension 
of its editorial pages. Forty-four now, as against 
forty in January, That means a greater oppor¬ 
tunity to show more interesting and helpful mate¬ 
rial. August takes advantage of this and it prom¬ 
ises to be a really exceptional issue. 
“Household Equipment” is a rather elastic 
phrase because it will include furniture in addition 
to the machinery for making the house more effi¬ 
cient. It will touch on varnish as well as smoke¬ 
less fireplaces, discuss a bride’s kitchen, show new 
designs for kitchen store rooms and exhibit a se¬ 
lection of unusual lighting fixtures. If one has an 
appetite for gardening, it will be tickled by the 
article on raising superb pansies, on the derivation 
Among the subjects consid¬ 
ered in the August member 
is the furniture of our Colo¬ 
nial forefathers 
of garden flowers and on the role played by games 
in landscaping—how to make a tennis court and 
a bowling green and a croquet green and such. 
For the amateur decorator there are pages of 
color schemes for dining rooms, an article on the 
use of color in decoration, the Little Portfolio of 
Good Interiors and the contribution on Colonial 
furniture. The pages of articles selected from 
shops will cover such varied fields as occasional 
chairs and bathroom accessories, in addition to 
the lighting fixtures. A variety of houses is 
shown in this number—two houses by Aymar 
Embury, II, in his most characteristic style. In 
all there will be nine houses shown in August. 
The ninth is a suggestion for a house to be built 
by degrees. 
These are a few of the editorial facts of August. 
Combined, they make a pleasant, suggestive and 
practical issue that can be studied to advantage. 
That is the aim of every number of the magazine 
—to present the greatest possible aggregation of 
inspiring and applicable suggestions. August will 
keep up the high standard of illustrations and 
range of house and garden subjects that previous 
issues have set. 
Contents for July . 1921. 
Cover Design by H. George Brandt 
The Fireplace Sets the Standard. 
Murphy & Dana, Architects 
Small House Opportunities. 
Albert C. Taylor 
We Buy Ourselves a Birthday Cake. 
A Georgian House or a Hundred Years Ago 
Collecting Early American Clocks. 
Gardner Teall 
The Gardens of the Jungle. 
William Beebe 
Above the Mantel... 
How Small May a Garden Be?. 
Richard H. Pratt, 2nd 
A Parlor Remade. 
What a Little Shrubbery Will Do. 
Lamps and Their Shades. 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. 
Small Gardens in Town. 
In a Narrow City House. 
Mrs. Emott Buel, Decorator 
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Volume XL, No. One 
Growing Hydrangeas in Tubs. 
Ralph M. Weinrichter 
Designs for a Cottage Bungalow. 
Frank A. Parziale, Architect 
Garden Cloisters. 
The Hall of Stars. 
Ruby Ross Goodnow 
Where the Balanced Group Is Effective 
Three Country Houses. 
A Blue Garden Blooming in July. 
Antoinette Perrett 
Wrought Iron Outdoors. 
The Facts About Electric Ranges. 
Ethel R. Peyser 
Reviving the Wilted Flower. 
John L. Rea 
Putting the Garden on a Budget Basis. . 
Ellen P. Cunningham 
For the Windows of a Dark Room. 
In the Country Hol t se Dining Room. ... 
The Gardener's Calendar. 
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be effected in less than one month . 
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