ARBORS, SUMMER-HOUSES, 

 PERGOLAS, AND OTHER 

 GARDEN FEATURES 



EW persons who daily pass 

 attractive homes in the sub- 

 urban districts of our large 

 cities and the outlying coun- 

 try, realize that much of 

 their charm is due to effects 

 which require a compara- 

 tively small outlay in dollars and cents. Good 

 taste, combined with a degree of skill that is 

 within reach of most of us, represent the chief 

 part of the investment. And yet — ^these little, 

 inexpensive things are the very ones that pro- 

 duce the pleasing effects we are all striving after 

 in our efforts to make home attractive. Most 

 of them convey an impression of being made for 

 use, not show. They are in a class with the broad- 

 seated, wide-armed " old hickory " rockers with 

 which we make our modern verandas comfortable 

 nowadays, and the hammock swung in shady 

 places, wherein one may lie and take his ease, and 

 forget everything but the fact that it is some- 



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