The Garden and its Furniture 
EXAMPLES OF WICKERWORK FURNITURE 
The value of out-of-door life both for the well 
and the ill is being insistently preached to-day by 
the medical profession and the garden is one of the 
means ready to hand for its accomplishment. Half 
the time spent indoors during six or seven months 
of the year might be more profitably spent in the 
garden—which should be regarded primarily as an 
out-door family living-room, and freely so used. 
We have rather lost the art, indeed, of so using 
the garden, for in our great grandmother’s time 
the old English idea of its relation to the house had 
by no means 
died out. It 
did finally lose 
its force and 
then our gar¬ 
dens were neg¬ 
lected and for¬ 
gotten. Within 
a decade the 
revival has 
taken place, 
b u t a 1 m o s t 
A garden table wholly to meet 
the demands of the owners of the great houses now 
building, for display without as well as within. It 
is quite certain that in many such cases there is no 
real sense of enjoyment of the garden for itself, but 
only for what the garden visibly stands for—the 
affluence of the owner. 
It is then, in connection with the more modest, 
and perhaps more real, home, that the garden stands 
in need of recognition and sympathy, which will be 
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