CONTENTS 
OCTOBER, 1906 
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Fishing Boats on the Giudecca—Venice.. 7 ; . . .. Frontisph 
Rose Valley, a Community of Disciples of Ruskin and Morris^;.. . .Mabel Tuke Pnestman .159 
“The Octagon,” a Shelter for Boys and Girls in Branch Brook 
Park, Essex Co., N. J.. . .Rossiter bf Wright, Architects .166 
Italian Decorative Iron Work. Marchese Ridolfo Peruzzi Medici .167 
German Model Houses for Workmen—II. The General Problem. William Mayner .173 
Mediaeval Cookery.: . .. ,.177 
Drawing of An Old Bucks County Barn. Jonathan Ring .179 
Beaulieu Abbey. The Dowager Countess De La Warr. . 180 
Garden Accessories—Some Formal and Rustic Summer-Houses. .Loring Underwood .185 
Some October Flowers. Ehen E. Rexjord .187 
Groton—Past and Present. Elizabeth Prescott Eawrence .191 
Frauds in Old China.■. Reginald Jones .196 
Children’s Playgrounds . K. L. Smith . ^ .201 
Garden Work in October. Ernest Hemming. . ..205 
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