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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
September, 1912 j 
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mulch became deeper and deeper, until 
for inches down the soil was like flour. 
It ran over the wheel hoe blades like 
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Distinctive Devices for House Ex¬ 
teriors 
( Continued from page 155) 
three adjacent stones of the rubble wall 
a rude device is cut. On one stone are 
the initials C O. M O. surrounded by a 
band. On the next stone is the date 1743. 
On a smaller stone above the junction of 
the two others a tulip and two leaves grow 
out of a curious cross-hatched pot. Were 
it not for occasional freshening with black 
paint this remarkable bit of work would 
become almost invisible. 
In choosing wall devices, other than 
those patterned after the masterpieces of 
Classic or Renaissance art, the question 
of appropriateness looms large. Ordinari¬ 
ly it is well to choose a subject in allusion 
to the locality, the name of the house, its 
history, the character or profession of its 
occupants — though this might seem to 
savor at times of a sort of advertising — 
or some symbolic or talismanic meaning. 
Even an S tie-rod makes a pleasing decora¬ 
tion. By way of example, the mermaid 
device alluded to is on the chimney of a 
house on Mermaid Lane, St. Martin 
guards a house at the corner of St. Mar¬ 
tin’s Lane, the monogram I.C.E. is af¬ 
fixed to the wall of a dwelling that was 
an ice house before it was remodeled, 
while the emblem with the fat serpent con¬ 
tinually wriggles about a staff on the 
chimney of a physician's house says to all 
beholders as plain as the nose on your 
face, “This is a doctor’s house.” 
The placing of wall devices must be left 
largely to convenience or inclination, but 
as a usual thing the side of a chimney, 
the end of a gable or a wide space between 
two windows where some break seems 
desirable, are appropriate spots for such 
adornment. In cost wall devices may 
range from a very low to a very high 
figure. The simpler ones may be made 
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and cost thousands. 
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It may chance to look like something else 
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houette devices may be cut out of sheet 
copper and backed on very thin board to 
give them body, or sheet iron will do; even 
wood by itself may be made to answer. 
Be careful in setting up wall devices not 
to overdo the thing and make the work 
gingerbready; a proper restraint must at 
all times be preserved. 
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