GARDEN ACCESSORIES: THEIR POSSIBILITIES IN 

 COUNTRY AND CITY GARDENS. 



BY LORING UNDERWOOD, BOSTON. 



Delivered before the Society with stereopticon illustrations, 

 Januaiy 20, 1906. 



It gives me a pleasure to meet you today for the purpose of 

 discussing with you some features of ornamental gardening, such 

 as fountains, pools, pergolas, arbors, trellises, bowers, terraces, 

 walls, balustrades, summer-houses or garden-houses, benches, 

 urns, tables, and figures. 



You will pardon me if I take advantage of the chance the stere- 

 opticon offers me to monopolize most of the discussion. 



While treating with garden accessories I wish to point out the 

 opportunity for their use in small city-yard gardens; such little 

 formal gardens as might easily be made out of the typical unsightly 

 back-yard; but I will first speak of these features in cormection 

 with the ornamentation of larger gardens. 



When I was asked by the lecture committee to give a talk on 

 this subject of garden accessories, or garden ornaments, or garden 

 furniture, as you may choose to call it, I thought it would be more 

 interesting and more instructive to treat the subject in a general 

 way rather than to talk about each particular style of garden orna- 

 ment by itself; for the reason that the successful use of these 

 features in a garden or on the grounds of a country place must 

 depend not only upon the design of the accessories themselves 

 but upon the positions they occupy. The most beautiful arbor, 

 pergola, summer-house, or fountain may look ugly if it is not 

 appropriately placed so as to appear in keeping with its surround- 

 ings. The introduction of such garden accessories as these together 

 with terraces, pools, walls, sundials, tables, and the like has been 

 made possible by the ever increasing use of our gardens and home 

 grounds as out-of-door living rooms. 



