The Garden Magazine, June, 1924 
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OUTDOORS OFFERS SO MUCH IN THE WAV OF HAPPY LIVING 
Why should we shut ourselves within walls at meal time or indeed at any time when skies are blue and warm breezes sing! The 
paved terrace makes an ideal living-room for many more days and many more occupations than we customarily realize. The 
Persian tile insets are a pleasant note of color here at Pres Choisis, the East Hampton (L. I.), home of Mr. Albert Herter 
garden. There are positions where the orange Venetian sailcloth 
can be used to effect, but it is a hot color and not at all refreshing 
in its suggestion. For most situations 1 find the plain, broad 
(about 6 inches each), solid, alternating stripes of dull green and 
white altogether the pleasantest and least obtrusive. When 
scallops are used to finish off let them be broad and square, fol¬ 
lowing exactly the alternating lines of color. 
A more leisurely but perhaps ultimately more delightful way 
of achieving overhead shelter is by the vine-clad pergola; and 
for this purpose the Caco Grape is in all respects admirable. 
It grows quickly and freely and suffers little from mildew or 
other pests. In three or four years it becomes a perfect sun 
shield, with intelligent pruning that throws its strength into 
luxuriance of leaf rather than of fruit, though even when thus 
deliberately pruned for foliage it still continues to bear fruit of 
equal quality but lesser quantity. The vines must be trained 
to overhang the west or south or sun side till they sufficiently 
shade the floor of the pergola much in the manner of a boy’s 
cap whose peak protects without shutting away air and light. 
It is quite obvious, of course, that the densest of overhead shade 
will not make a terrace habitable when the sun begins to slant 
unless it has a bit of side-curtain too, as it were. The Beta 
Grape and the old-fashioned Concord are also amenable and 
friendly allies in the matter of making shade. 
Of Walks and Walls 
U SUALLY a walk runs down from the terrace, linking it with 
the garden at large, and is apt to follow the terrace in style 
and material or is bound to it by at least a partial repetition: as, 
for instance, a gravel path with an edging of brick may run 
off from a brick-laid terrace without perceptibly jarring the 
general scheme though probably* nine times out of ten the all¬ 
brick path will look better. 
Broken (lagging is especially good with colored slate and the 
slate-paved terrace is delightfully accompanied by a walk of 
the water-worn flagging which is found and gathered from the 
bottom of a few of our rivers. These stones are exceptionally 
thin and smooth with a ripply smoothness full of character and 
variation like the palm of the hand. They make fine paths, 
particularly of the stepping-stone type, as they can be laid right 
on top of the turf without any preliminary preparation or ex¬ 
cavation and if stamped on hard, will firmly establish themselves 
in a season. This extremely simple process is possible, how¬ 
ever, only where there is already a good lawn; it is sometimes 
necessary to excavate a few inches and put in under each stone 
some cinders and sand. Slate may be laid in the same fashion 
though it is always wiser to have a foundation when laying a 
well-thought-out walk which is in no danger of having to switch 
its course. The advantages of the first-mentioned method are 
apparent where a change is contemplated or liable to occur. 
And, incidentally, stepping-stones should be spaced to com¬ 
fortably meet the gait which is not an unswerving line but a 
faintly curving zigzag as the weight swings from one foot to 
the other. About twenty inches apart from center to center is 
a normal distance for placing the stones. 
Along paths leading to a rock garden place rough stones, the 
rougher the better; and after embedding them firmly, plant 
Ivy or other creeping greenery between that will veil their 
