August, 1912 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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woven bine linens such as hung in long 
folds to regulate the light effects in the 
studio. 
The studio was a room two stories high, 
with a great arched three mullioned north 
window and a vaulted ceiling in brown 
wood. An interesting feature was keep¬ 
ing part of the room one story high, mak¬ 
ing a cozy spot for looking up material 
and giving an interesting gallery effect 
above from the room that was used as a 
frame and packing place but which could 
as well have been employed as a bedroom. 
Such studio suggestions as these are be¬ 
coming more and more popular for our 
living-rooms. They offer not only space, 
interesting architectural features and 
splendid fenestration, but lend themselves 
to wonderfully effective schemes of fur¬ 
nishing. 
Across the hall from the studio there 
were three small living-rooms, a reception 
room, a sitting-room and a dining-room 
with an enclosed porch that was used as a 
flower room. The windows of these rooms 
as well as of the bedrooms and dressing 
rooms above them, were double casements 
with leaded glass panes, mullioned and 
transomed like the windows that are so 
familiar to us through the genre paintings 
of Pieter de Hooch. The roof of the 
porch offered a good suggestion for a 
sleeping porch. Its parapet and stepped 
sides not only made the doors leading 
upon it invisible from below but made it 
the loveliest of uncovered sleeping places. 
It was the location of the kitchen, how¬ 
ever, directly between the two gabled ends 
of the front, directly beneath the eaves of 
the main roof and hard by the solid front 
door, that was especially interesting be¬ 
cause its entire outer wall was a quaint 
and lovely composition of two transomed 
casements framed with the door, a com¬ 
position characteristic of the Seventeenth 
Century shop fronts that can still be seen 
in Amsterdam. It looked especially pic¬ 
turesque by the side of the great arched 
studio window. The kitchen court was 
divided from the front path by a hedge 
and low gate and had a wooden pump to 
symbolize it. The kitchen was placed in 
this way not only because the rear of the 
house is usually the garden side, and not 
only because the northern exposure is 
cooler but because it is not treated as our 
kitchens so often are as a purely utilita¬ 
rian part of the house. In this respect 
we have much to learn from the Dutch 
home. The kitchens there are naturally 
furnished upon the same principles that 
other rooms are with furniture, dishes 
and utensils that are chosen not only for 
their utility but for their power to please, 
for their loveliness of form and color 
and for their ability to make the room a 
harmonious whole. And added to the 
necessary utensils, there are usually some 
purely ornamental pieces of old brass, or 
more rarely some article of copper or 
lacquered ware, a custom as self-evident 
as the placing of ornaments in other 
rooms and one upon which the happiness 
of the servants is dependent. The stoves 
LILIUM CANDIDUM (Choice Northern Grown) 
The favorite lilies of the old-fashioned garden; produce strong, stiff 
steins, studded with a mass of pure, glistening, white flowers, that enliven 
the perennial flower garden or, for effects of contrasts with the beautiful 
green shrubs of the June garden, are unequalled. 
Plant some bulbs during August and September and enjoy a big crop 
of flowers next June or pot up, store in cold frame, and force for early 
Winter in the greenhouse or conservatory. 
Extra Large bulbs 15c. each $1.50 doz. $10. per 100 
Jumbo bulbs 25c. each $2.50 doz. $15. per 100 
GIANT FREESIA PURITY 
A charming little bulbous plant for window-garden, greenhouse or 
conservatory. Has tall, stiff stem, bearing six to eight beautiful, snowy 
white flowers. 
Plant a dozen bulbs in a 5-inch pot and enjoy a feast of blooms for 
Christmas. Where a continuous display during Winter is desired, plant 
a dozen or more pots and set in cold frames bringing in at intervals of 
two weeks from October. Excellent for cutting, remaining in good condi¬ 
tion a week or more in water. Much superior to the popular Refracta 
Alba Freesia, in size of flower, strength of stem, (often measuring 20 
inches) and purity of color. 
Large fine plump bulbs 75c. doz. $3.50 per 100 $30. per 1000 
Jumbo bulbs $1.00 doz. $4.50 per 100 $40. per 1000 
On all orders amounting to $5. or more , express charges paid anywhere in United States 
Our catalogue of Best Bulbs for Fall Planting will be sent to all cus¬ 
tomers in August. A postal will bring you one. 
50 Barclay 
Landscape Gardening 
A course for Homemakers and 
Gardeners taught by Prof. Craig 
and Prof. Beal of Cornell Uni¬ 
versity. 
Gardeners who understand up- 
to-date methods and practice are 
in demand for the best positions. 
A knowledge of Landscape 
Gardening is indispensable to 
those who would have the pleas¬ 
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