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merits to any extent, he will still gain satisfac- 

 tion in constructing a garden arch. This may 

 he simple or elaborate as good taste and suita- 

 bility dictate. Indeed the garden arch is com- 

 ing into its own as an architectural adornment 

 and few features more successfully "knit" the 

 garden plot to the house. 



Finally there is the friendly dooryard. A 

 charm ever lingered about the old-world door- 

 yard that too often is lacking in our own. We 

 have been wont to feel that so long as we bar- 

 ricaded our premises with fences we were ob- 

 taining seclusion, or that in removing them we 

 were lending to our lawns an appearance of 

 inviting hospitality. Now, fortunately, we 

 have turned in the right direction, and the 

 friendly dooryard is coming to be one of the 

 features of our successful homes, whether cot- 

 tages or villas. We are learning the most at- 

 tractive materials to use in building garden 

 walks, to terrace our dooryards when they need 

 it, to screen our porches without producing 

 gloomy effects; withal, to make the entrance 

 part informal and inviting without sacrificing 

 its dignity. 



In the days of our great-grandmothers the 



