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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 



A F0R:\[AL GARDEN" WITH PERGOLA AND FURXTTURE. 



Xow our American gardens are largely unfurnished. 

 All the furnishings necessary for family life, for hu- 

 man comfort, for interest and entertainment are com- 

 pletely lacking. Our common talk abmit gardening 



A IIAIHTATILE CORNER OF A PERGOLA. 



completely ignores furnishings, concerning itself sim- 

 ply with trees, shrubs and flowers. 



The point at which American life first breaks 

 through toward the garden is on the family porch. 



FOR AX ORXAMEXTAr. GARDEX STOXE SETT7XG IS EFFECTIVE. 



We often talk about porch life, -which is a kind of rmt- 

 door life halfway between the garden and the house. 

 At any rate there are many families who are unwill- 

 ing to shut themselves up quite within the four hard 



We are indebted to the Wagner Landscape Service, Bobbink & .\tkins, 

 Ilaiitnian-Sanders Company and Galloway Terra Gotta Company for the 

 illustrations here reproduced. 



walls of the house, and who find some relief and re- 

 freshment on the porch. They read and visit there^ 

 serve tea, and some even play bridge. Many progres- 

 sive people have sleeping porches whereby they pro- 

 ject the daily life halfway into the garden. 



Now this porch life simply represents one stage in 



A .=;ETTEE rXDER A LARGE TREE JIAKES .\ COZY XOOK. 



progress. The next and natural stage would be to 

 move further into the grounds and to get more of the 

 sky. Also more of all the joys and satisfactions of 

 outdoor livinsj. 



OUTDOOR THE.\TRE WITH TERR.SCED TURF SEATS. 



Ill modern garden magazines we read a great deal 

 about pergolas. As I understand a pergola, it is an 

 architectural figure primarily designed to connect an 

 outh-ing architectural element with the main house. 



L.\TTICE FEXCE SERVING AS WIXD SHIELD .\XD TO OP.STRUCT 

 AX UXDESIRAP.LE VIEW. 



