October, 1921 
21 
House & Garden 
CONDE NAST, Publisher 
RICHARDSON WRIGHT. Editor 
R. S. LEMMON, Managing Editor 
THE HOUSE PLANNING NUMBER 
A N editor enjoys getting up a fine issue of his 
magazine just as a good cook enjoys the 
L preparation of a fine meal. He knows exactly 
what sort of things are going into it and has fairly 
safe reasons for supposing that it will be enjoyed. 
We are enjoying the preparation of this issue. It 
will be a big meal, a wholesome meal, a meal not 
soon to be forgotten. 
The general motif of this feast is house planning, 
but we haven’t put house plans on every page, just 
as no cook uses the same ingredients in all the 
courses of one meal. There is more to house plan¬ 
ning than house plans. It is a concoction of 
various styles, plus a pinch of architectural detail, 
a generous measure of family requirements, &ith 
some dream stuff dusted over the top. It isn’t 
complete without the dream stuff, any more than 
an egg is palatable without salt. Certainly the 
houses shown in this issue—about twenty in all 
are the stuff of which a home builder’s dreams are 
made. 
Nor can the courses of this November banquet 
be all alike. So we have mixed in judicious 
amounts of gardening and decorating—the soup 
and salad of the feast. For who can plan a house 
A variety of California architec¬ 
ture will be shown in the House 
Planning Number 
without planning also the furnishing and decora¬ 
tion of its rooms? Who can visualize the home 
that is to be without its gardens and their abun¬ 
dance of flowers? Nor can a good householder con¬ 
sider the meal complete until it contains an ade¬ 
quate amount of kitchen equipment. So into the 
pot has gone a measure of that too. 
Some folks may say that this sounds like a 
ragout of left-overs, a publishing stew, a thin 
Sunday night supper pulled together from nothing 
and nowhere. Don’t be mistaken! Each course 
is carefully chosen for the ease of its mental ali¬ 
mentation. Each is rich with digestive nutriment 
and seasoned with fine illustrations. Its practical 
vitamines are countless. In fact, so carefu'ly are 
these pictures and articles chosen and arranged 
that one passes from one to the other as easily as 
a gourmet passing from fish to flesh to fowl. 
There! Our space is almost gone and we haven’t 
said a word of what this issue is going to consist. 
Neither does the good cook! If you know too 
much beforehand the surprise is lost. You have 
to wait until it is set upon the table. So with this 
feast. It will be served about October 23rd; you’d 
better reserve your seat through your newsstand. 
Contents for October , 1921. f olume XL, No. Four 
Cover Design by Ethel Franklin Betts Bains 
The Open Hall. 22 
Peabody, Wilson & Brown, Architects 
Framing The Landscape Picture. 23 
Luton Abbotswood 
Garden Rooms in City Houses. 
Margaret McElroy 
The Winter oe Our Discontent. 
A Variety’ of Walls. 29 
Dwight James Baum, Architect 
Collecting Salt Glaze Ware. 
Gardner Teall 
The Home of Charles A. Stone, Piping Rock, L. 1. 
Welles Bosworth, Architect 
The Intelligent Use of Flowering Shrubs. 34 
Robert S. Lemmon 
The Home of Thomas T. Hopper, Rye, N. Y. 36 
Lewis Colt Albro, Architect 
Ten Distinctive Wall Papers. 32 
The Bold Colors of an Autumn Garden. 38 
Elsa Rehmann 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. 39 
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Reviving the Lavabo.. 42 
Costen Fitz-Gibbon 
The Newer Narcissi. 43 
If You Plant But A Dozen Peonies. 44 
George H. Peterson 
Walnut Furniture in the Days of Queen Anne. 46 
A. T. Wolfe 
English Ivy as a House Plant. 48 
Carl S. Dow 
House & Garden’s Fall Planting List. 49 
Accessories for the New Car. 3 ® 
If You Are Going to Build. 51 
Mary Fanton Roberts 
John Held, Jr., Creates a New Menagerie. 54 
A Group of Five Small Houses. 33 
The Indispensable Kitchen Cabinet. 38 
Ethel R. Peyser 
Edging Plants for the Perennial Border. 60 
H. Stuart Ortlojf 
Chrysanthemums for the Autumn Garden. 62 
Charles H. Totty 
Seen in the Shops. 63 
The Gardener’s Calendar. 64 
