The Garden Magazine, June, 1924 
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“A QUIET SPOT UNDER A SHADOWING TREE” 
“The placing of a seat is not to be thoughtlessly disposed of. A little ingenuity will devise a fitting terminus for 
the principal axis of the garden and the seat can go off in a partially secluded place to one side.” And, inciden¬ 
tally, this bench is particularly attractive in structure, conveying a sense both of lightness and of substantiality. 
Garden of Mrs. George M. Gales at Great Neck, New York, designed by Ruth Dean, Landscape Architect 
garden, returns to the house or takes one on some interest¬ 
ing excursion. 
Where Arches Look Best 
A NOTHER garden feature that one is sometimes at a loss to 
. know for what purpose it was intended is the arch. An 
arch covered with blooming Roses is in itself a pretty thing, but 
not pretty enough to be dropped down in the middle of a lawn 
nor for that matter to justify a purposeless existence at just 
any place in the garden. 
The arch is a form of opening, and argues something in which 
to make an opening—a wall, a hedge, a shrub border, a row of 
fruit trees; it is an architectural form even if it is executed 
in plant materials, and as such it must be related to some¬ 
thing. Tie your arches into the landscape and reinforce 
them at the sides by means of planting and place them where 
you want to lead from lawn to flower garden, from flower 
garden to vegetable garden or from one part of either to 
another part. 
Of Pools and Sun-dials 
A N OFTEN disregarded axiom is to place the sun-dial in 
L full sun; 1 have seen it set in the complete shade of trees or 
in the shelter of a wall, ideal locations for a fountain or a bird- 
bath, but not the spot where an instrument for telling time by 
the sun could carry on its life work. 
A pool on the other hand is pleasanter with some shadows 
on it, than in open sun, and if in the design of the garden the 
pool seems to be finding itself out in an open glare of light, a 
casual bent tree planted near its edge as if it had happened 
to be there when the pool was built, will cast the welcome shadow. 
Often it is the chance thing about a carefully designed garden 
which gives it charm, and sets at naught all our calculated 
balancing. 
Furniture to Fit the Plan 
HERE is nothing to be left to chance, however, in the 
design and selection of the accessories themselves. The 
atmosphere of the house (providing the architecture is good) 
