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RUSTIC WORK FOR GARDENS AND LAWNS 



THERE ARE FEW GARDEN FEATURES THAT HAVE BEEN MORE MISAPPLIED THAN THAT OF VARIOUS SORTS OF RUS- 

 TIC WORK. NEVERTHELESS, FEW FEATURES FOR GARDENS AND LAWNS CAN BE MADE MORE THOROUGHLY ATTRAC- 

 TIVE WHEN PROPERLY DESIGNED AND FITTINGLY CONCEIVED THAN WELL-CONSTRUCTED RUSTIC WORK. THERE WAS 

 A TIME WHEN EVERY HOME WAS DEEMED INCOMPLETE WITHOUT ITS ARBOR, RUSTIC BENCHES AND RUSTIC FENCING. 

 THE OLD WORLD HOMEMAKERS, ESPECIALLY THOSE OF GERMANY, WELL UNDERSTOOD THE ART OF RUSTIC CON- 

 STRUCTION, AND IT IS A PITY THAT EARLY AMERICAN ADOPTERS OF CONTINENTAL IDEAS SHOULD NOT HAVE SHOWN 

 MORE APPRECIATION OF RUSTIC WORK LIMITATIONS AND HAVE, IN CONSEQUENCE ADOPTED IT IN THE NEW WORLD 

 CONDITIONS. INSTEAD THE RUSTIC WORK WAS HARDLY EVER PROPERLY DESIGNED, BEING MORE LIKE THE SKELE- 

 TON OF A LOG HOUSE THAN AN ARBOR SUCH AS ITS PURPOSE SHOULD HAVE SUGGESTED. AGAIN ALL SORTS OF FAN- 

 TASTIC AND UNCOMFORTABLE BENCHES WERE CONSTRUCTED OF SUCH DECEITFUL PROPORTIONS AND UNCOMFORT- 

 ABLE BUILD THAT IT DID NOT TAKE MANY YEARS FOR THE ART OF RUSTIC WORK IN AMERICA TO BE THROWN INTO 

 THOROUGH DISREPUTE. FORTUNATELY, HOWEVER, THERE HAS COME A REVIVAL OF THIS SORT OF CONSTRUCTION 

 AND AMERICAN HOMEMAKERS WILL DO WELL TO GIVE IT MORE INTIMATE THOUGHT AND ATTENTION. 



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