October, 1912 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
i95 
Miss Grace Tabor is so instilled with 
the idea of creating a true Colonial 
garden that she has wade a syste¬ 
matic study before beginning her plan¬ 
ning. The data is so interesting it will 
appear in book form 
Mr. XV. H. Butterfield, the author of 
"The Book of House Plans,” and Mr. 
C. F. Peters, who illustrated “Trau - 
merei,” spend much time in discussing 
the relative values as art of drawing 
pictures and drawing plans 
T HE name “old-fashioned garden” is very loosely used nowadays 
to apply to any place surrounded by a box hedge and planted 
with marigolds, phlox and flowers prized fifty years ago. There has 
been such an appeal about the gardens of our forefathers that Miss 
Tabor wished to find out just what kind of a garden her grandmother 
planted; what there was in it and how it could be reduplicated con¬ 
sistently in order best to preserve the sentiment of Colonial times. In 
her work to find out these things she has met with an astonishing lack 
of information. A great many of the flowers that are regarded as 
old are practically modern developments since 1850. These naturally 
could not claim the dignity of old-fashioned flowers. Then investiga¬ 
tion showed that the gardens that have existed from Revolutionary 
times are so very scarce that they might almost be counted on the 
fingers of one hand. Literature descriptive of gardens and seedsmen’s 
catalogues have had to be searched for in the private libraries from 
Montreal to Florida. At last her patient and painstaking search has 
begun to show results and before very long Miss Tabor will be able to 
tell us just what type of garden was planted in the Dutch colonies and 
the English colonies in the South, and, best of all, there will be color 
schemes and practical suggestions for reduplicating the real old- 
fashioned garden. 
subjects of which they treat has been extended to subscribers for 
some considerable time. Perhaps it has not been generally known 
to what extent these services reached. In connection with the work in 
the house, if those who desire schemes will write a brief description 
giving the architectural style, a characterization of location and some 
data as to the structural difficulties of the house, schemes will be 
submitted for various rooms giving designs for rugs, curtains, wall 
paper and samples of the materials in thorough harmony with the 
suggestions. House and Garden will even go farther, and attend to 
the purchasing of such materials for those who live far from the city. 
Although Mr. C. H. Claudy has had years of experience with large 
cameras and in creating wonderfully artistic work, still his old love is 
a kodak, since it may be 
carried into all sorts of 
situations and be of ser¬ 
vice in an instant whatever 
the case may be. This pho¬ 
tograph was taken on the 
tiptop of a mountain ledge 
many thousand feet high, 
up which Mr. Claudy had 
climbed. It would have been 
impossible for him to carry 
anything else than a small 
hand camera. This constant 
acquaintanceship with photo¬ 
graphic materials has made 
him especially fitted to write 
his ‘First Book of Photog¬ 
raphy,” which he does with 
the straightforwardness of 
advice that a friend would 
give. 
Mr. Claudy’s activity as a mountain climber 
does■ not make him oblivious to the softer vir¬ 
tues of telling stories to children. His next 
literary effort is a book of children’s stories 
An invitation to write to 
the editors of departments 
in House and Garden for in¬ 
formation relative to the 
Of late there has been such a pressing demand upon House and 
Garden to furnish schemes for the construction of houses and to give 
plans and specifications that McBride, Nast & Company have finally 
decided to publish a book of house plans and elevations for small 
houses. It will be an intensely practical work and one that should 
appeal to a great many planning to build. The present difficulty that 
architects have of simply receiving a commission on the expenditure 
entailed in building a house has deterred many of the more prominent 
from giving their time to houses under $5,000 in cost. There is as 
much work necessary to design and oversee the building of a small 
place as there is in a more pretentious one. Consequently, many of 
the smaller places are built by construction companies and lack merit 
of design. Mr. Butterfield, who is the left one of the two figures in the 
upper corner of this page, 
has spent much of his time 
in the development of the 
extremely reasonable house. 
He has put much effort in 
making these places as at¬ 
tractive as the more elabo¬ 
rate work that House and 
Garden has illustrated from 
time to time. By creating 
the designs of more than 
twenty houses, each one 
distinctive, and covering a 
wide range of materials 
and design, he has been en¬ 
abled to undertake this 
work. Specifications and 
blue prints may be had for 
any of the designs of the 
book. The work should be 
a real contribution to the 
building field, especially as 
it has been developed in the 
spirit of causing a general 
improvement in houses that 
were architectural eyesores. 
Ur. Leary is capable of supporting three chil¬ 
dren in more ways than one. Perhaps his 
strenuous life in Andorra enables him to do 
such circus stunts as this zvithout a quiver 
