22 
The Garden Magazine, September, 1920 
TWO MORE CRETONNES 
In various fanciful colorings the first will 
adapt itself to almost any color preference 
while the second may be had with its 
Wisteria natural in shade or astonishingly tan 
DELIGHTFUL IN ALL WEATHERS 
The opportunity to sit fairly in the open and 
observe the roughest elements in close inti- 
macy while still protected from them, as at 
the Delafield residence, Riverdale, Conn, 
{below) is what the ideal veranda affords 
Mattie Edwards Hewitt Photograph 
THE FREEDOM OF ALL OUTDOORS! 
The elliptical design on the ceiling utilizing 
the outside lattice motif at the home of Mr. 
Tyler Morse, Westbury, L. L, is an exceed- 
ingly clever and successful device for creat- 
ing the illusion of openness and space 
eyes are open for that particu- 
lar kind of thing. 
There is really no limit, once 
the plunge is taken and the in- 
hibitions of indoor ideas are 
thrown overboard. This in- 
deed is really the first step. 
And approach from the garden 
is I think, the surest way of 
escaping these inhibitions. In- 
stead therefore of regarding 
the veranda as a room of the 
house projected a little farther 
toward the garden, consider it 
as the garden’s advance out- 
post at the frontier of man’s 
intrusion, the border-land 
where the garden spirit is to be 
conciliated and wooed and en- 
tertained with profound con- 
sideration and sincere defer- 
ence. Plants alone will not 
accomplish this. It is indeed 
conceivable they are not needed 
at all. Certainly many indoor 
plants have little or nothing in 
themselves to contribute to the 
earning out of this conception; 
but the plant motif through- 
out, harmoniously executed, 
will achieve it. Finally, let 
me suggust that if the wide 
difference between garden and 
pot plants is recognized in selecting 
the subject of this motif, it will be 
possible to create practically any 
atmosphere desired. 
