PRIMITIVE AMERICAN POTTERIES OF TRADITIONAL MOULD 
For two hundred years in North Carolina and elsewhere this craft has been carried on by the descendants of early 
Dutch and English settlers. Beautifully simple and shaped for service these jars and vases in tones of orange, olive 
green, brown, and silver-gray seem particularly appropriate for garden and veranda. (Courtesy of Mr. Jacques Busbee) 
H POTTERY THAT PLAYS A PART A 
H IN GARDEN AND LOGGIA ff 
AMY RICHARDS COLTON and ARTHUR W. COLTON 
Introducing Permanent Color into Patio and Garden—Wall Fountains and Tiles to 
Brighten Dull Days—Vases that Keep the Garden Gay and Banish “Off Seasons” Forever 
Editors’ Note: Readers of “Decorative Ironwork” (G. M. for July, 
August, and Sept, 11)22) will pleasurably recall the sympathetic and intelligent 
handling of this subject by Mr. and 
Mrs. Colton who have a trick of lifting 
up from the realm of the merely banal 
and infusing the liveliest interest into 
whatever they touch. A decorator, 
dealing daily with problems of color 
and shape and suitability, Mrs. Colton 
brings not only a trained and discriminati ng taste to the present discussion, but 
also the knowledge born of a strong pers onal liking for pottery. Mr. Colton, 
essayist and poet, ably sets facts 
against a background of history and 
points to future possibilities for this 
branch of garden decoration “in which 
the names of potters shall be as well 
known as those of architects and land¬ 
scape gardeners.” 
THE sense of taking 
their pleasures out-of- 
doors, the Americans 
of older generations 
seem to have been rather less 
an out-of-doors people than 
their contemporaries of west¬ 
ern Europe. At least, when 
Americans began to go abroad 
in large numbers some genera¬ 
tions since, they discovered 
and reported various kinds of 
pleasant open air ways of liv¬ 
ing, and wondered why people 
at home did not do likewise. 
Many reasons, or rather the 
causes historical and social of 
that American neglect would 
now readily occur, but one not 
so readily occurring is this: 
that it takes a long while for 
a people to become accus¬ 
tomed to their climate, that is, 
to fall in to such habits and 
customs as are most pleasant, 
comfortable, healthful, and 
adapted to that climate. The 
Pacific Coast climate is much 
like the western European, 
being a western facing coast, 
THE JUGTOWN POTTERY 
In the primitive manner of their forebears these mountaineers still work and 
it is the very crudeness of their methods that gives their product distinction, 
differentiating it sharply from the somewhat monotonous perfection of 
machine-made things. (Vases shown above) 
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