HOUSE AND GARDEN 
September, 1912 
166 
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Photographs like this are interesting 
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(It’s Easy Enough) 
The owner of this pergola asked us last Summer about a planting that would soften the architecture and 
cause it to blend more naturally into his landscape. Full particulars were given us and we helped, with the result, 
that the first season this attractive planting was secured—imagine its even greater beauty when later, vines 
cover the pergola. 
Perhaps your problem may not be just like this. No matter, we have 40 years of experience and 500 acres 
of trees and Shrubbery for lawn planting. With this knowledge of plants and assortment to draw upon we 
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Catalog descriptive of our stock and illustrative of some of the work we have done gladly mailed upon re¬ 
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Candle Lighting and Candlesticks 
(Continued from page 147) 
while when a greater quantity of copper 
is used, the brass is redder and tougher 
but softer. 
Pewter candlesticks are attractive 
mainly on account of their simplicity. 
There are many people who would not 
consider a pewter candlestick an addition 
to the house “ornaments,” nor value it 
from a collector’s standpoint. The writer 
knows an estimable lady who refused to 
give house room even to an old family 
pewter platter! But the desire for pew¬ 
ter is a growing one, although it has small 
beauty of workmanship or of material to 
attract the eye. Old pewter is extremely 
rare, these days. Pewter should be used 
in such simple surroundings that it will 
suggest the modest home of the past where 
circumstances prevented the use of sil¬ 
ver. 
Cut glass, while highly ornamental, has 
not the same practical appeal as metal, be¬ 
cause of its fragility. But nothing is 
prettier with dark Colonial furnishings 
than the iridescence of a well-cut, pure 
Colonial candlestick. Empire designs— 
tall, with a large cup at top and base have 
a stately grace, but seem out of place 
save in strictly Empire surroundings. 
Good Colonial designs in plain cut glass 
are worth from two to four dollars each, 
depending upon the size and plainness of 
the cut. Imitations are procurable from 
twenty-five cents up. 
Old glass candlesticks are rare; and 
rarer still are those with glass pendants 
— perhaps because of the attraction these 
sparkling, jingling “lustres” had for the 
children! Occasionally in the old days 
brass or silver candlesticks with glass pen¬ 
dants were seen; these were generally in 
girandole or candelabra sets. Every New 
England home of any pretensions a hun¬ 
dred years ago had a set usually of three, 
the center one holding three candles, the 
others one each. Sometimes these giran¬ 
doles were of bronze, or cheaper metal 
gilded. Many of these girandoles are 
now stored away in garrets. Bring them 
forth — use them; and do not let someone 
persuade you to part with one of the set. 
If you should desire to sell at any time 
they would bring a good price only in an 
unbroken set. 
The very tall candlesticks of glass, ec¬ 
clesiastical size, are sometimes used as 
the large brass or bronze ones — on the 
floor — hardly a safe spot in the average 
American household. 
Pottery candlesticks, made nowadays in 
so many artistic shapes and colors, are 
suited to use where they tone in with 
simple furnishings that do not adhere to 
any special period; also in craftsman 
rooms, although dull metal candlesticks 
and fixtures are always in the best taste 
with craft furniture. 
While one occasionally finds elaborately 
carved wood candlesticks, they are apt to 
be too high priced to appeal to the aver¬ 
age pocketbook. The designs of Colonial 
