THE FURNITURE OF HISTORIC ENGLAND 
I Is admirable adaptability to the modern American home is 
is to the English cabinetmakers of 
earlier ages that Furniture owes its 
livable quality, without which the 
well-considered home of to-day would 
lose its chief charm. 
^ That the Furniture of Seventeenth 
^ and Eighteenth Century England also 
possessed a high degree of decorative 
merit is quite obvious from the 
reproductions and hand-wrought 
facsimiles of rare old examples on view in 
the Twelve Galleries of this establishment. 
^ Here one may acquire, within 
^ moderate cost, not alone the 
Furniture of every historic epoch, but 
the unique Decorative Objects and fine 
Oriental Rugs essential to the success of 
the scheme in view—however simple or 
elaborate the requirements. 
Suggestions may be gained 
from de luxe prints of 
well-appointed rooms, 
sent gratis upon request. 
^cu)^opk®alIepje;s 
Grand Rapids Rirniture Company' 
34^36 West 32'^ Street 
New'Vbrk City 
House & Garden 
The Rainbow Garden Border 
{Continued from page SO) 
In order that a garden may be showy yellows. Silvery leaved plants are valu- 
and attractive, the best principle in the able as edgings. They bear the same 
employment of colors is never to use a relation to purple and lilac as the warm 
compound color between the two primi- colored foliage does to strong red flow- 
tive colors which compose it; for ex- ers. Keep the lighter colors near the 
ample, purple ought never to be em- dwelling house, and the brighter farther 
ployed between blue and red, and orange from the house. 
between yellow and red. Blue flowers The following colors appear in the 
should be placed near orange, violet next spectrum in the degrees indicated: Vio- 
to yellow. . Red or pink looks well when let, 80°; indigo, 40°; blue, 60°; green, 
surrounded with a border of gray or 60°; yellow, 48°; orange, 27°; red, 45°. 
white. Each primitive color should be Mark off your border into different 
contrasted with its complementary color, divisions and arrange your colors ac- 
which will always be found to be a cording to the spectrum in the follow- 
compound one. Care must be taken in ing succession. 
placing very cold white flowers such Deep blue should be followed by light 
as Iberis sempervirens (hardy candy- blue, and by pale yellow, white, pink, 
tuft). White flowers of this sort are rose, crimson, scarlet, orange and orange 
best used as high lights in the garden, scarlet, bright yellow, pale yellow, 
led up to by whites of a soft charac- white, lilac and lavender and violet, 
ter. Frequent repetitions of white Give more space to the cooler shades 
patches catch the eye unpleasantly. It of color, such as blue and yellow, and 
will generally be found that one mass less space to the warm shades, red and 
or group of white flowers will be enough orange, 
in any piece of border or garden ar- A list of plant i 
rangement that can be seen from any Respective heights^and 
