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should be extended 
into the garden: if 
the house be Italian, 
the garden benches, 
flower-pots, sculpture 
should be Italian in 
feeling, and they 
should be chosen with 
similar care for Eng¬ 
lish or any other given 
type of architecture. 
Italy was the par¬ 
ent of all garden fur¬ 
niture and all other 
countries borrowed 
from her. The fur¬ 
niture u nderwen t 
modifications in the 
borrowing, to be sure, 
so that England and 
France and Spain each 
set her own mark on 
the Italian type, and 
each produced varia¬ 
tions. Moreover, each 
country has had cer¬ 
tain pieces of furni¬ 
ture that characterize 
it particularly, as the 
wood benches of Eng¬ 
land, the iron seats 
and tables of France, 
and the Spanish use of 
tile in seats and foun- 
GIV 1 NG THE DIAL A CHANCE 
“ Place the sun-dial in full sun, not in the shade of trees or shelter of a wall, 
ideal locations for a fountain or a bird-hath, but not the spot where an in¬ 
strument for telling time by the sun can carry on its life work.” In a 
Minnesota garden designed by Holm & Olson, Landscape Architects 
tains. American Col¬ 
onial work had a very 
definite flavor, also in 
the white painted 
wood adaptations of 
English Georgian work 
—not to be confused 
with much of the 
heavy white painted 
stuff that is sold as 
“Colonial” to-day. 
The importance of 
archeological correct¬ 
ness in the design of 
American gardens is a 
question for client and 
landscape architect to 
decide between them. 
A straightforward so¬ 
lution of a problem in 
design, one that is 
suited to the “lay of 
the land,” the house 
and the client’swishes, 
with beautifully de¬ 
signed, or intelligently 
selected furniture, 
suitable in scale and 
character, is bound to 
produce a pleasing re¬ 
sult, and one which 
has advanced a step 
in the evolution of 
garden architecture. 
GARDENS THAT PLEASURE THE PUBLIC AND SERVE THE NEEDY 
A N UNSUSPECTED opportunity to do good work lies in the 
hands of those fortunate owners of gardens that are more or less 
crudely described as “show places.” 
It has ever been the way of gardeners to visit one another’s domain 
“for to see and to admire,” and indeed not a little of the real joy of the 
real gardener comes from the exhibition of his possessions to admiring 
friends, especially if these same people have not reached in their own 
enclosure the triumphant solution of some cultural problem or success¬ 
fully acquired some elusive or “ hard-to-grow” rarity. And this with¬ 
out any ostentatious display or even vaingloriousness for gardeners are 
peculiar in their relations to each other. They expatiate upon their 
accomplishments not in a spirit of boasting, but as teachers, investiga¬ 
tors to whom has been vouchsafed a glimpse of knowledge not for the 
common crowd. 
Last year a group of enthusiastic garden owners with benevolent 
feelings threw open their respective grounds on specified dates to the 
public, a small admission fee being charged for the benefit of some 
local charity. The effort was remarkably successful, so much so that 
it has been extended this year to include many of the leading gardens 
of Long Island. 
Of course, the same kind of thing might be done elsewhere; is done, 
in fact, in a few individual cases. The well known Du Pont gardens 
near Wilmington last year, for example, were opened to the public for a 
25 cents admission fee every Saturday with the result that the local 
hospital received twenty-eight thousand quarters. 
Those of our readers who do have gardens that are the objects of pil¬ 
grimage by other gardeners might perhaps take advantage of the sugges¬ 
tion and follow a good example. 
JULY’S GOLDEN MEED FOR THE GARDENER 
TT’S never too late to mend” is just as good an adage for the gardener as for any one else! If your new house was delayed in the finishing and you’ve only 
just moved in, do not fancy that this summer needs to be a dead loss. There are lots of things you can have and do—almost any of the vegetables, for 
instance, Carrots, Beans, Corn, Lettuce, and so on may still be enjoyed by sowing seed now. Do you want Dahlias this fall? Or Strawberries next spring? 
Answered in THE NEVER TOO LATE GARDEN appearing in the July G. M. 
Humans are always “wishing for the moon,” rather a commendable habit really—and the amazing part of it all is that so many dreams do actually 
come true! Certainly this is so for the gardner who has all the beneficent forces of life working with him. Do you dream of Orchids and yearn to capture 
some of their tropical jewel-like beauty for yourself? Well, you may, whether you live in Hoboken or Kalamazoo makes no difference, as Mrs. M. G. Henry 
delightfully and convincingly assures you in her forthcoming ORCHIDS ALL MY OWN. “The floor space of my tiny greenhouse is 6 x 7 ft., too small 
to be of any practical use, so everybody tells me, and yet it has been and still is for me a perfect little Paradise.” 
“Nature has always been our best medicine man. Give her a chance to remake your system—eat more salads.” Mr. G. L. Luros, Nutritional 
Chemist, speaks with the authority of knowledge and housekeepers will find sound information, some new and delectable salads in our recently established 
department THE HOUSEWIFE AND HER HOME GARDEN which is to include each month such matters of specific interest to the “lady of the 
house” as Recipes, Articles on Flower Arrangement, Table Decoration, Food Values and Family Health, and all the diversified activities of a competently 
run menage. 
