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House & Garden 
CONDE NAST, Publisher 
RICHARDSON WRIGHT, Editor 
R, S. LEMMON, Manaping Editor 
OCTOBER’S 
PART IN THE GARDEN 
T HE autumn is almost as busy a season in the 
garden as the spring. The gardener’s hope 
of “Next Year” is stimulated by the successes 
and failures of the past summer. There is always 
this available future—and the time to seize it is 
now. Plant now for next year’s bloom. Plant 
abundantly of perennials and shrubs and bulbs. 
Having worked hard this autumn in the garden, 
the winter of your discontent will be short indeed. 
The October number is designed to act as coun¬ 
selor for those who plan to do big things and 
little in their gardens this fall. It opens with a 
helpful article on how to make the landscape 
picture—how to frame views and create vistas in 
your garden. The illustrations are unusual and 
beautiful. A discussion of the flowering shrubs 
shows what a wide and varied range we have to 
choose from. The newer narcissi will be told of 
in another paper, and in still another a selection 
of twelve good peonies for the beginner will be 
made. In the Fall Planting Table will be found 
the whole story of autumnal activities in con¬ 
secutive form. October also starts a series of 
articles on perennials—the lower kinds for edging 
being considered in this contribution. To make 
The simple dignity of tile and 
flat wall surfaces is brought out 
in this hallway from the Octo¬ 
ber issue 
the measure full we pile on a page of snapdragons, 
a flower that deserves more attention from Ameri¬ 
can gardeners. 
Autumn is also the time when, having finished 
the garden, we turn indoors. So there is a charm¬ 
ing article on garden rooms for city houses, quite 
a different idea. And there are pages of new wall 
papers and delightful articles seen in the shops. 
You will also be amused by the strange animals 
John Held, Jr., has created for book ends and 
door stops. The Little Portfolio this month will 
be especially interesting. You will also find Wal¬ 
nut Furniture of Queen Anne’s Day a subject 
worthy of attention. 
There will be seven houses altogether in Octo¬ 
ber—one large, one medium-sized and five of the 
smaller types. Each represents a different style 
and all are examples of meritorious architecture. 
In September we begin a series of articles on the 
construction of the house, beginning at the roof. 
In October the walls will be explained. 
This October issue is a lively number. The 
proofs are coming through now from the printer 
—and they look very good. You can’t afford to 
miss it. 
Contents for September, 1921. Volume XL, No. Three 
Cover Design by H. George Brandt 
A Setting tor Antiques. 22 
Charles of London, Decorator 
Screens in the Scheme of Decoration. 23 
Karl Freund 
The New York Home of Foster Kennedy. 26 
Henry Milliken, Architect 
Rural Aristocracy. 28 
The Dooryard Garden. 2 9 
Secret Furniture from France. 30 
Gardner Teall 
Good Iris That Are Little Known. 32 
John C. Wister 
A Remodeled Country House. 34 
Prentice Sanger, Architect 
The Garden and the Still Room. 35 
Sinclaire Ronde 
Shall You Build, Buy or Rent?. 36 
Emma Gary Wallace 
Fabrics for the Room That Is Different. 37 
Furnishing the Fireplace. 38 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. 39 
A Garden in Three Levels. 
Lillian C. Alderson 
To Plant in the Shaded Garden .... 
Making Plaster Count More. 
Costen Fitz-Gibbon 
An English Topiary Garden. 
Occasional Tables. 
Michaelmas Daisies. 
A. H. Johnson 
The Classic Homes of Old Georgia. 
Ruth Draper 
Book Rooms of Beauty and Charm. 
Aldous Huxley 
Fabrics for Use This Fall. 
Two California Places. 
Myron Hunt, Architect 
The Home Fire Hazard. 
Ethel R. Peyser 
If You Are Going to Build. 
Mary Fanton Roberts 
Seen in the Shops. 
The Gardener’s Calendar. 
Subscribers are notified that no change of address can 
be effected in less than one month. 
Copyright, 1921, by Conde Nast Sr Co., Inc. 
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