August, I912 
T will be well to begin now to think about planting Ever- 
greens. Indeed, August is none too early for the actual 
planting itself, for thus one may anticipate the rush incident 
to September work in the garden, when there will be bulbs 
to set out and gaps in the perennial borders to be filled in, 
and greenhouse work. ‘Thus it will be seen that the Aug- 
ust Sralenae operations though few, perhaps, furnish 
enough for the garden beginner with occupation sufficient 
to maintain his interest and enthusiasm in mankind’s most 
delightful and healthful recreation of developing nature. 
A GARDEN CORNER-SEAT 
N the May, 1912 number of AMERICAN HOMES AND 
GARDENS a number of garden seats were illustrated. On 
this page the reader will find reproduced a photograph of 
a very attractive corner-seat. This would make an excel- 
lent feature in large gardens or on grounds that are planted 
with shrubbery and evergreens. The general plan of a 
bench of this sort is adaptable to working out in rustic style. 
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THE REMODELED HOUSE 
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turn with pleasure to the problems of remodeling the old 
Colonial farmhouses, and village cottages with a zest that 
is refreshing. A few miles away from the ancient inn, where 
every Governor of Massachusetts, from 1776 to 1876, 
said to have been received as an honored guest, there is 
another town, woefully new, a veritable nightmare of 
“‘builder’s architecture.” I cannot help but contrast the two 
villages, the one which is quaint, and lovely, a hamlet of 
homes, and the other blatant in its bad taste, which sacri- 
ficed the old ruthlessly, because it believed it could not be 
happy with life that could not be spent under a roof with a 
cupola. In our old village they will point out to you the 
little remodeled cottage where Daniel Webster used to 
visit, the house in which the words to ‘‘Yankee Doodle”’ are 
said to have been written, and other delightful nooks 
and corners of Colonial and later period interest, from 
the days of the Pilgrim Fathers to the present day. Of 
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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 297 
Here one sees pictured an excellent way of making a lawn feature out 
of a few boulders and field stones which are overgrown with a riot of 
gorgeous nasturtiums that have been planted with reference to a closely 
clustered color effect 
course every attractive old house may not have a history, 
but it will seem to have, and that, after all, is one of the 
greatest charms of the new house made from the old one. 
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Under the eaves in the sewing-room are two sets of built- 
in drawers, the bottom ones being so large that they served 
as a bed for two visiting babies for ten days. ‘There is 
an outlet for an electric iron, to save the time of the seam- 
stress and confusion downstairs. [he runway to the bath- 
room has two linen drawers built in under the attic stairs, 
which enables one to get fresh linen without entering a bed- 
room. ‘The quaintness and simplicity of the house attracts 
every passerby, and it is most amusing to hear persons argu- 
ing most strenuously as to its being an old or a new house. 
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