CONTENTS FOR AUGUST, 1906 
Houses with a History—Blenheim Palace. P. H. Ditchfield .52 
A Japanese Garden at Lansdowne, Pa. Charles J. Pilling .63 
Portraits of American Trees, Native and Naturalized, photographed by . . .Arthur L Emerson .6g 
Descriptive Text by Clarence M. Weed 
The Sycamore Maple The Red Ash The Lombardy Poplar 
The Persimmon The White Ash The White Spruce 
Tooled Leather. 
An Interesting Example of Sewage Disposal at Essex Eells, N. J. 
The House of a Symbolist . 
The First County Park System in America—HI. 
Garden Work in August. 
“Plans”—An Explanation. 
House and Garden Bedstead Competition. 
Tuberous-rooted Begonias. 
House and Garden Correspondence. 
.76 
.Albert Priestrnan ..82 
Wolfram Waldschmidt .87 
Frederick W. Kelsey .90 
Ernest Hemming .96 
. 97 
The Metal Art Company . . .98 
H. Howard Pepper .lOl 
. . 102 
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