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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar91912newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
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September, 1912 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS Vll
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THE FALL PLANTING NUMBER OCTOBER is the month when the garden maker will find himself busied with the planting of perennials and with rearranging the hardy border. There will be bulbs to set out too, for the garden in early Springtime must be planned now as well as next season's Summer garden. THE October number of American Homes and Gar- dens will be of great interest and value to the maker of the home garden, as it will be the annual Fall Planting Number, and although other features will by no means be neglected, especial emphasis will be placed upon gardening subjects in the October contents. The subject of "Fall Planting for the Summer Flower Garden" will be ade- quately treated in a handsomely illustrated article, forming a valuable supplement to the article on Spring planting which appeared in the annual gardening number of Amer- ican Homes and Gardens for March, 1912. The gar- den maker not only wishes, as a general thing, to know how the flowers raised from various seeds will look, but quite as much desires to gain some conception of the grouped appearance of planting efforts when the garden will have reached its maturity. For this reason the reproduction of photographs that have been chosen to illustrate the article on Fall planting for the Summer garden have been selected with the purpose in view of giving the home garden-maker an adequate idea of the landscape-in-little effects of judic- ious planting, in the belief that lovely though flowers may be in themselves, and charming though wild-growing things may appear in their natural confusion, that garden culti- vated flowers should invariably be placed in accordance with a plan that will enable them to enhance the beauty of any premises by an orderly relationship thereto. BULBS for Fall planting will be the subject of a second authoritative article in the October number, contributed by one of the foremost writers on garden subjects in Amer- ica. This will be exquisitely illustrated from photographs of some of the most beautiful bulb gardens in America. The home garden-maker who reads this article will be cer- tain to find therein reliable information concerning what, when, where, and how to plant Spring flowering bulbs that may be set out in October. THE article on "Brick Houses" by Robert H. Van Court will concern itself with brick as a suitable and attractive material for the building of a house large or small, and also will discuss the use of brick in connection with other building materials. MARY H. NORTHEND will contribute to the Octo- ber number an illustrated description of a most at- tractive house in Reading, Massachusetts. This will be accompanied by floor plans of the first and second stories. ONE of the oldest and most historic houses in Phila- delphia, "Mount Pleasant on the Schuylkill," will be described by Harold Donaldson Eberlein and illustrated by excellent photographs both of the exterior and of the interior of this interesting house. The double-page fea- ture for October will consist of a collection of photographic reproductions of Pergolas in American gardens. These have been carefully selected from a country-wide range of trellis as being typical of the best garden art of this sort. BEAUTIFUL California homes have always an interest for the Eastern as well as for the Western reader, and a delightful hillside house will be described in the October number, accompanied by floor plan and terrace plan and by exterior and interior photographs. PHEASANT-RAISING is coming to be both a profit- able and an interesting phase of country life develop- ment, and with this in mind the Editor has commissioned Mr. E. I. Farrington to prepare for the October number of American Homes and Gardens an illustrated article on this subject. The department "Within the House" will contain an article by Harry Martin Yeomans, entitled "Why Colonial" and the other departments, "Around the Garden" and "Helps to the Housewife," will, as usual, be of value and interest to the home-maker, who will find many other contributions throughout the pages of the Fall Plant- ing Number fully worth while reading for its constructive worth. SUMMER CHARITY THERE is something about the thought of freezing to death that makes the average human being give more attention to charitable deeds in Winter time than in Sum- mer, when nature seems, to the careless thinker, to be taking upon her own shoulders, more or less, the burdens of our brother's need. As the editor sits in his comfortable sanctum, cooled by the current of air industriously stirred by the indefatigable electric fan (sensibly placed to assist ventilation from open windows and yet without draughts which should be avoided even when the mercury mounts high in the thermometer tube), he cannot help thinking of the poor and the sick caught in the congestion of city life without relief from the excessive heat of some of the torrid days for which our large cities are noted. The Editor wonders if it would not be one of the truest acts of kind- ness for those in a position to do so to give electric fans to cheer the days of those invalids who cannot indulge in even so small a luxury. Think what that would mean to one shut in through the September days! The suggestion need not be thought impractical when one takes into con- sideration the fact that, nowadays, nearly all city flats are fitted with electric connections. Indeed, home aid societies and private charitable clubs might, to advantage, have elec- tric fans to lend in emergency cases, which thus would also serve to bring comfort to many in rotation. COUNTRY VS. CITY FOR HEALTH IS life more healthful in the city or the country? On this often-asked question bulletin 109 of the census bureau sheds some light, says an editorial writer in the Chicago Record-Herald. It shows that in 1910, for the registra- tion area of the United States, the death rate per 1,000 population for the cities was 15.9, while for the rural re- gions it was 13.4. This, The Medical Review of Reviews says, "is indicative of the lessened mortality rate in the rural parts of the registration states as opposed to the urban." The bulletin's figures show striking differences in city and country death rates from certain diseases, and on the whole, that chances of sanity, health and longevity are greater in the country than in the cities.

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