DECORATIVE GARDEN LANTERNS 



A stately old tree trunk standing close to the 

 garden roadway, or near the entrance gate, offers 

 another picturesque support for the garden lantern. 

 A stout iron bracket will be required to hold the dec- 

 orative lantern-lamp in position. When hung upon 

 the stable walls a background of thrifty ampelopsis 

 or other rapid-growing hardy vine will provide a 

 permanent and attractive setting. It is really an 

 easy matter to have the details of yard and stable 

 illumination beautiful as well as useful without add- 

 ing appreciably to the cost. Good taste must be 

 exercised to avoid over-decoration of the lantern 

 support. Vines will be superfluous and out of place 

 for training about the support when there is a per- 

 manent decoration in the form of a clump of ever- 

 green trees of dwarf growth about the base of the 

 rustic post or the mound of rocks. A single bushy 

 specimen of one of the globular- shaped evergreens, 

 or a dwarf pine of spreading growth, is sufficient in 

 itself, and should not be combined with vine or floral 

 decoration. In planting, allowance must be made for 

 future growth. As the first essential of the lantern 

 is to light the path or drive, care must be taken that 

 no heavy shadows shall fall because of the decora- 

 tive planting where the light is most needful. At 

 a point away from the garden view, a little path may 

 be made through the evergreen grouping, or stepping 



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