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Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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s which,while foreign to the true al-loy, influence ductility andmalleability. Nine portionsof copper and one of tin isthe proportion of metal tometal in the normal compo-sition. In this connection itis interesting to note that in those of more ambitious size which have found their gun metal is of a similar composition, place in the garden, to which they lend an old world charm. It is unnecessary here to speculate upon the mythical Many of our American sculptors, because of this grow- story of the discovery of bronze-making by the Idaean ing interest in sculpture, are devoting themselves exclus- Dactyls, its ancient use by the Telchines of Rhodes, or the ively to the modeling and production of the small house legend of the founding of Cadmian Thebes, made possible bronze, of which there is now so great a variety and which by the excellence of the weapons of bronze which were form so important a feature used by Cadmus in the time of our home decoration where of the seventeenth dynasty.
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Copyright by A. St. L. Eberle. „ . ,( Copyright by Charles Carey Rumsey. _ Copyright by G. E. Bissell. Indian Fisherman, by A. St. L. The Polo Player mounted on his Quarter Horse, by Charles Carey Diogenes and his Lantern byEberle Rumsey George E. Bissell 274 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS August, 1913

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