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House & Garden 
A Host of 
Golden Daffodils 
Dancing in the Breeze 
Perhaps no manifestation of Spring gives so de¬ 
licious a thrill as the smiling faces of the first 
daffodils. Signals of Spring,—their vision of 
beauty lingers all the days of the garden year. 
November is the Best Time to Plant 
These Little Sunbeams 
The best method of “naturalizing” daffodils—so their 
grouping will be informal—natural, is to scatter pebbles 
and where the pebbles fall, there plant a bulb. Thus 
they take their grouping naturally and like stars that had 
dropped into your meadow and taken root, they bloom in 
all their loveliness. “Like fairy gold”—blooming from 
early April into May, they multiply annually and ever 
grow in beauty. 
Collection of Best Quality, Named Varieties 
Chosen Particularly for Naturalizing 
We have succeeded in importing one hundred collections, 
each containing a thousand bulbs of the choicest named 
varieties. They have been selected with great care by 
experts. To enable the readers of House & Garden to 
become acquainted with our choicest importations, we 
offer these collections to the first hundred who send us 
their order. 
One Thousand Bulbs in Each Case 
Original Holland Packing 
Fine Named Varieties—$29.00 
After these are disposed of, we cannot supply any more 
this year. This is an opportunity to secure a fine col¬ 
lection of narcissus at what is really a bargain price. 
If your name is not already on our lists, write us, that 
we may send you our future announcements of unusual 
offerings. 
John Scheepers, Inc. 
FLOWER IIULI! SPECIALISTS 
Awarded Highest Honors for Quality 
522 Fifth Avenue New York 
If You Are Going To Build 
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a set of blue prints and your building 
catalogues always at hand in case of 
any argument about the construction. 
It is poor policy to cut the cost of 
building too much, it is like having a 
poor surgeon for a difficult operation. 
You cannot hope for a good house, satis¬ 
factory in all its details, unless you have 
an accomplished architect, a skillful 
builder and the best building materials. 
This need of good material extends 
through the equipment of your house. 
Your home will never be truly com¬ 
fortable unless the heating, lighting and 
plumbing systems are of the best. In 
practically nine cases out of ten you 
can save money by having an excel¬ 
lent architect from the beginning; the 
one time when this may not be neces¬ 
sary is if you can get guaranteed stock 
plans and turn them over with specifica¬ 
tions to a builder with a reputation. 
One of the sure ways of economizing in 
building is the use of stock materials, 
of stock windows, and doors, woodwork 
and trims. Of course your whole house 
can be built of stock lumber, but the 
result is sometimes lacking in a certain 
distinguished individuality. 
It is almost superfluous these days to 
suggest simplicity in design and con¬ 
struction as well as interior finish and 
furnishing. Futile ornament is no 
longer good taste or in style. We build 
our houses for comfort and conveni¬ 
ence, and their beauty must grow out 
of the right design and the best con¬ 
struction. 
OPPORTUNITIES FOR HOUSE PLANS 
R ESIDENTIAL building continues 
to lead all others. Of the sum 
‘ total of all new building done in 
one month recently, 34% was the con¬ 
struction of homes. Already $450,000,- 
000 worth of homes were reported 
under way for one single month. It 
has been estimated that we require at 
least five million new small houses in 
this country, houses that are comfort¬ 
able and practical, well planned and 
well built. If this is true, a great many 
thousands of people are going to build in 
the immediate future. They will want 
to know all about small houses and 
about building materials. One way 
to find out is through the practical, 
interesting, and often beautiful book¬ 
lets and catalogues that are being pub¬ 
lished today, not only the books of 
house plans but all of the details of 
building construction. The pamphlets 
listed here by no means exhaust the 
list. From time to time these will be 
reviewed in the columns of House & 
Garden. The amazing amount of money 
American manufacturers are investing 
in service of this kind for home build¬ 
ers furnishes an opportunity for educa¬ 
tion that has never before been of¬ 
fered the public. 
A very practical book for people who 
are going to build is “House & Garden’s 
Book of Houses ”—Conde Nast & Co., 
New York City, publishers. There are 
over 300 illustrations in this book of 
houses and plans, garages and interest¬ 
ing architectural detail. All of these 
houses have been built and many of 
them by famous architects, so that this 
book really gives you a survey of do¬ 
mestic architectural progress in this 
country, as well as inspiration for build¬ 
ing. 
“How to Plan, Finance, and Build 
Your Home ”—This essential book for 
the person who is going to build is 
published by the Architects’ Small 
House Service Bureau of Minnesota. 
If you are planning a home of from 
three to six rooms which you want to 
make economical and comfortable, and 
if you want to know all about build¬ 
ing materials and floor plans, and your 
garden and kitchen equipment, you will 
find invaluable help in this book. It 
also gives elevations and descriptions of 
every kind of material and in immense 
variety. It is possible to secure work¬ 
ing drawings and specifications of any 
house in this book at a moderate cost. 
“Home Builder’s Plan Book ”—This 
is a new book of plans for small 
houses published by Rogers & Manson 
Company of Boston. Fifty designs are 
shown including prize drawings, and 
these designs cover frame, brick and 
stucco construction of four-, five- and 
six-room houses. The houses are all 
practical, modern dwellings. It is a 
significant volume to study if you are 
planning a house of your own. 
Two books of real value to those 
who are about to build are “Colonial 
Houses, 25 Designs,” “Stucco Houses, 
21 Designs.” These books contain not 
only the elevations of houses but floor 
plans, prospectuses and descriptions. 
They are published by Henry T. Child, 
New York City. Very practical houses 
are shown. 
“Keith’s Magazine” of Minneapolis, 
Minn., is making a very interesting of¬ 
fer of three books of house plans show¬ 
ing 100 designs, of bungalows, cottages 
and two-story houses. These houses are 
all the small, modern designs, and the 
pictures in most instances show some¬ 
thing of the garden planting. Floor 
plans also are given. 
Two books published by Yokot Mer¬ 
ritt, Seattle, Wash., are extremely in¬ 
teresting in their illustrations and ma¬ 
terial. “Craftsman Bungalows” is 112 
pages of practical, distinctive types of 
bungalow costing from $1,000 to $10,- 
000. “Colonial Homes,” of course, fea¬ 
tures the old and new Colonial type of 
architecture. The book is well illus¬ 
trated and of practical interest to the 
would-be homemaker. 
“A Group of Small Houses” published 
by The House Beautiful Publishing 
Company, Boston, Mass., gives you an 
interesting variety of modern houses to 
select from. A group of four designs 
has been made to order by a firm of 
well-known Boston architects and these 
houses are shown. Working drawings 
and specifications are available. 
If you are thinking only of building 
a summer camp and yet want it com¬ 
fortable, screened from insects, and an 
ideal sleeping place, you should send 
for “Away from City Cares.” This cat¬ 
alogue, published by Togan-Stiles, 
Grand Rapids, Mich., shows a variety 
of camps and cottages, delightful for 
a summer rest, for vacation trips, for 
week-ends. These little buildings, ready 
to put up, can be delivered to your 
lot, any place in the woods, or to a 
responsible dealer. They save you time 
and money, and bring comfort and 
peace. 
An interesting pamphlet of houses 
and house plans is published by the In¬ 
diana Limestone Quarrymen’s Associa¬ 
tion, Bedford, Ind. This book shows 
designs submitted for a competition for 
detached homes faced with Indiana 
limestone, and not only are the floor 
plans given of each house but different 
elevations and details of construction, 
which would be helpful to a degree to 
any builder who wants to carry out an 
architect’s plan conscientiously. The de¬ 
signs of the houses are immensely pic¬ 
turesque, carefully thought out, and the 
plans comfortable and exceedingly prac¬ 
tical. 
“A Portfolio of Face Brick Bunga¬ 
lows and Cottages” is being published 
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