GARDENES QU E TREATMENT OF THE VERANDA 
MARGERY WICKWARE 
Consulting Decorator 
Aids to Preserving the Outdoor Atmosphere of This Essentially American Feature When 
It Is Glass Enclosed Are to Be Found In Especially Designed and Unconventional Fabrics 
S BECAUSE it has evolved from the staid and onetime 
■ formal entrance porch until it is now the meeting place 
3 of the garden and the house, the well-placed veranda 
is the garden’s legitimate successor during the winter 
months; and consequently the place where fancy — especially 
fancy stimulated by garden feeling — may very well have free 
rein. It is indeed the place where one’s most daring— and 
darling! — schemes may legitimately be put into execution; for 
they need not be permanent if they fail to please, or they may be 
as permanent as desired if they please greatly. 
Whatever the scheme, however, this intimate rendezvous of 
the home’s two essentials — the garden and the house — should 
preserve the outdoor sense; yet the indoor sense will claim it in 
spite of everything, once it is enclosed within its walls of glass, 
if this is not resolutely combatted. To this end let it never be 
overlooked that space is valuable beyond words. Use the 
greatest care to avoid cluttering either with furniture or orna- 
ments, regulating both to the same degree that you would 
regulate them in the garden and confining them to things 
that are surely useful as well as amusing or beautiful. Observe 
the rule of the garden too with regard to placing things, 
keeping ' open centres” and thereby assuring space in which 
to move about freely. 
For the confirmed individualist anything he — or she — 
fancies in the way of fabrics for cushions or hangings is possible, 
through the use of stencils conforming design to individual 
conception or taste. Or there is, on the other hand, a wealth 
of material ready — cretonnes, chintz, prints and such — in pat- 
terns which are quite worthy to furnish inspiration for an entire 
decorative scheme. One may therefore approach the pleasant 
task of transforming the veranda into a “garden room” (may 
1 suggest that there be no effort to make it an “ indoor garden ”?) 
from either of two ways. 
With a given plant in hand as a beginning — such as the Bay- 
tree, or Palms, or Ferns — the stencil motif establishes itself 
automatically; and it is a matter only of selecting the back- 
ground upon which in its simplified form, Fern or Bay or Palm 
shall be applied, and determining upon the colors in which it 
shall be developed. Whether it shall be naturalistic or bizarre — 
perhaps “futuristic” — depends of course entirely upon the 
individual temperament; the same motif may be treated in 
either way. And while it should not be over emphasized and 
AN UNUSUALLY SUCCESSFUL ADAPTATION OF A PLANT FORM TO A TEXTILE DESIGN 
With its ttim and positive lines and rich depth of color the Bay-tree dominates wherever it appears, and the repetition 
of its note in a chintz supplies very distinguished harmony. Residence of Mr. Edward Sinclair, Pelham Manor, N Y. 
