The first number of American Homes and Gardens, a magazine published by Munn & Co., in New York, contains a profusely illustrated article on “Notable American Homes,” by Barr Farree.

Many of the foods in today’s American diet have roots in Native American culture. Foods like corn, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, squash, pumpkins, beans, tapioca, avocados and 47 kinds of native ...

HOME & GARDEN. By Joe Eaton and Ron Sullivan, Special to The Chronicle Oct 21, 2009 ... The American Meadow Garden: Creating a Natural Alternative to the Traditional Lawn" (Timber Press; ...

The Garden Conservancy has released its beautiful coffee-table volume documenting "Outstanding American Gardens" - including two in Pottersville, NJ.

HOME & GARDEN. The story of the American front porch. ... Jackson Downing, a prominent landscape designer, and architect, created some of the first design styles unique to American architecture.

A member of the birch family, one of the American hornbeam’s most distinctive features is its smooth, slate-gray trunk and branches that look as though there are muscles flexing underneath the bark.

This article was originally published with the title “ American Homes and Gardens--The New Magazine ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 93 No. 1 (July 1905), p. 4 doi:10.1038 ...