May, 
19 2 3 
47 
House & Garden 
Through this doorway one 
goes to view an enchanted 
rose garden, which will be 
shown in the June number 
S tatistics are tricky 
things, and yet they have 
a fascination. You can do 
so much with them and ap¬ 
parently prove away so many 
problems. You can pile them 
up in a big stack, like the Wool- 
worth Building, or spread them 
out flat, like a railroad track or 
curl them up, like an anchovie. 
We confess to a weakness for 
them, and whenever life gets 
boring and apparently unpro¬ 
ductive we sit down and prepare 
a lot of statistics. The other 
evening, for example, we hap¬ 
pened to be turning over the 
pages of some old volumes of 
House & Garden. Having a 
paper and pencil handy, we be¬ 
gan to scribble down figures. 
Before we knew it, they began 
to look like Woolworth build¬ 
ings and railroad tracks and, 
if we hadn’t stopped them, they 
would have curled up like an 
anchovie just to prove what the 
magazine does to fish when they 
read it. However, from this 
chaos of figures we precipitated 
the following facts which may 
be of interest: 
Those who read House & 
Garden from 1918 to 1922 in¬ 
clusive were privileged to see 
no less than 9517 illustrations. 
They considered 297 houses 
with plans and read 168 articles 
on building. Their eyes scanned 
166 photographic spreads of 
good interiors and read 223 
articles on interior decoration 
Contents for May, 1923 . 
Cover Design by Joseph B. Platt 
The House & Garden Bulletin Board. 49 
A Composition of House and Garden. 50 
Terraces for Outdoor Living... 51 
Matlack Price 
The Home of Mrs. A. P. L. Dull, Southern Pines, N. C. 54 
Aymar Embury, II, Architect 
Hoarding and Using. 56 
Architecture Without Affectation. 57 
Mellor, Meigs & Howe, Architects 
Well-Dressed Furniture . ss 
Margaret Bradford 
Wall Papers for Living Rooms. 60 
Lucy D. Taylor 
Furnishing in Relays. 61 
Ethel Davis Seal 
Where To Look For Curios In London. 62 
Sir James Yoxall 
Lily Pools and Ponds. 63 
Gardens In Windows. 66 
Minga Pope Duryea 
The Cutting Garden. 68 
H. Stuart Ortloff 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. 69 
Spode Porcelain and Pottery. 72 
A. T. Wolfe 
Dignity In A Man’s Room. 74 
John G. Hamilton 
Wiiat You Should Know about Linoleum. 76 
Ethel R. Peyser 
Transplanted Architecture. 77 
Basil Oliver, Architect 
In The Manner of an Italian Villa. 78 
Dwight James Baum, Architect 
Steps and Stairways in The Garden. 80 
Richard H. Pratt 
Pruning Shrubbery To Obtain Effects. 82 
Carl Stanton 
Has Your Door an Architectural Pedigree?. 83 
A Town House Remodeled. 86 
Wm. Lawrence Bottomley, Architect 
Summer and Autumn Vegetables. 88 
Joseph Henry Sperry 
Toile de Jouy. 89 
Linens for the Country House. 90 
Mirrors In New Designs and Old. 91 
The Gardener’s Calendar. 92 
Feature In Jacobean Furniture. 94 
Mr. & Mrs. G. Glen Gould 
1 olume XLIII, No. Five 
Subscribers are notified that no change of address 
can be effected in less than one month 
Copyright, 1923, by The Conde Nast Publications, Inc. 
Title House & Garden registered m U. S. Patent Office 
and furnishing. The gardeners 
were allotted 259 articles on 
their pet subjects and 148 pho¬ 
tographic spreads. In this time 
there were also 92 articles on 
household equipment and 90 ar¬ 
ticles on collecting and art sub¬ 
jects. Seen-in-the-Shops pages 
totaled 191 and the articles se¬ 
lected from the shops attained 
the dizzy figure of 1564. In 
these five years the work of 224 
different architects was dis¬ 
played on House & Garden’s 
pages, rooms done by 90 differ¬ 
ent decorators and gardens by 
24 different landscape archi¬ 
tects. 
Quite a number of things can 
be deduced from these figures, 
but the one that interests us 
most is the fact that we have en¬ 
deavored to give our readers a 
good measure of interesting and 
authentic subjects, abundantly 
illustrated and concisely pre¬ 
sented. If the facts of building, 
decorating and gardening can 
be suggested in the graphic form 
of pictures, we believe that 
readers will grasp them quicker 
and retain them longer. 
If, in some way, we could 
trace the inspiration to build, to 
furnish and to garden that all 
these illustrations and articles 
have aroused, the figures would 
doubtless be amazing. That, 
after all, is the weakness of sta¬ 
tistics — somehow they don’t 
seem able to measure dreams 
and hopes and ambitions. 
