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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
August, 1912 
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in the equal spacing of ornamental fence- 
posts across the entire front; in this 
scheme it was judged unwise to disturb 
the simple spacing of these units. We 
cannot help thinking, however, that the 
gateway should have some definition and 
individuality of its own, if only from the 
practical point of view. In any event the 
whole motive should be simple enough to 
belong to the house and the style should 
not be foreign to the locality. It is a com¬ 
mon practice with architects to introduce 
into Northern work the lines and details 
of Southern. This does not seem good 
judgment. What right, for instance, has 
a replica of Homewood among the classics 
of old Salem? There should be good 
material in your own locality, and such 
only will give you the individuality 
of the home touch. It is true that foreign 
lines may be adapted, but in so doing one 
must feel the true intention of the locality 
and use that touch. In the mass of gate¬ 
ways, the two posts are separate, but 
sometimes we find them yoked or con¬ 
nected by an arch. In some later exam¬ 
ples, too, the iron motive which served 
to support the lantern, also affected this. 
Most of this ironwork does not belong to 
-the rest of the design, being attached in 
any way that came handy ; its outgrowth 
from the ball or urn is of course bad taste. 
Old-time gate-hinges were of the strap 
pattern, and this is as it should be. For 
farm gates, the fastening may be a simple 
wooden latch or bolt, or where it may be 
tampered with, a hasp and padlock. The 
wooden latch might also be adapted to the 
gate of the house front motive, that is, in 
simple and primitive types; more elabo¬ 
rate problems might use the old-time door 
latch with effective results, particularly if 
the same be of iron. 
The entrance without the gate is not a 
thing to be advised. There are few con¬ 
ditions under which it may be used with¬ 
out sacrifice to privacy and independence. 
If your entrance passage be fenced in with 
hedge, or otherwise contains nothing of a 
private nature (as flowers), and be entire¬ 
ly cut off from the grounds proper, the 
gate may be omitted. In like manner, the 
entrance which relies on steps from the 
street level to the higher grade of the 
house, may be more effective without the 
member in question. 
In the pleached entrance lies, perhaps, 
the best method of treating the opening in 
the hedge; it always counts for what it is. 
Generally it is unclosed by a gate, but the 
latter may be used nevertheless with suc¬ 
cess, provided its lines are made to fit 
those of evergreen motive. 
The ordinary turnstile has possibilities, 
but one will probably have to look for ex¬ 
amples on the other side of the water as 
our ever restless native could hardly be 
content with such a primitive contrivance. 
There is a common English stile which 
provides for the passage over the wall by 
means of steps on either side. Occasion¬ 
ally we see this here, and there is a varia¬ 
tion, in which the steps are stone flags 
built into the wall, each one free of its 
neighbor. While the stile is far from fit¬ 
ting every problem, it has excellent possi¬ 
bilities and should by all means be included 
in your list as such. 
We have spoken of the fence problem 
as one of new building; such will be the 
majority of cases. The fence, as ordi¬ 
narily constructed, was short-lived, and 
when it passed it was rebuilt on up-to- 
date lines. It is only with those who have 
had the means and the inclination that 
some old and elaborate examples are al¬ 
lowed to exist, or with those too poor, or 
otherwise occupied, to rebuild. 
The Naturalizing of a City Man 
(Continued from page 91) 
tools and machines, but that he knew they 
would be as safe in Mantell’s hands as in 
his own. 
The plans for the Garden Department 
required much more detailed work than 
any of the others. In the first place the 
work in the greenhouse had to be planned 
as carefully as possible, for though they 
would have nearly twice the amount of 
room that had been available the year be¬ 
fore, they knew from experience that 
every foot of ground must be made to 
count—must be filled up not only once, 
but two or even three times. So Raffles 
and Mantell made a large plan of the 
greenhouse and frames and figured out 
how much space each thing should occupy, 
and for how long. The list of vegetables 
to be grown was as follows, though, of 
course, they figured out the amount of 
each variety grown : 
For own 
Vegetable 
use 
T0 sell 
Total 
Beets . 
. .. 3,000 
1,000 
4,000 
Cabbage . .. . 
.. . 2,000 
8,000 
10,000 
Cauliflower . 
200 
200 
400 
Celery . 
. .. 2,000 
1,000 
3,000 
Egg-plant . . 
.. . 50 
100 
15 ° 
Lettuce .. .. 
3,000 
5,000 
Peppers . .. . 
. .. 50 
200 
250 
Tomatoes . .. 
3,000 
“ in 
one-doz- 
en boxes. 
2,000 
f 5.300 
“ in 
pots for 
own use. 
300, 
28,100 
This meant quite a formidable bit of 
business, and in addition there were three 
bushels of early potatoes to cut and start 
in sand, by a method Mantell had found 
out about at the Experiment Station, and 
several hundred onion seedlings to be 
started in the greenhouse and tried as an 
experiment with the “new onion culture r 
or transplanting method. 
The garden space for outdoors was 
nearly doubled and a careful and detailed 
plan of spaces and succession plantings 
and companion crops made. Some things 
that had not seemed to sell the previous 
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