HOUSE AND GARDEN 
February, 1912 
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Brighten up the deep, shady nooks on your lawn, or that dark 
porch corner—just the jilaces for our hardy wild ferns and wild flower 
collections. We have been growing them for 25 years and know 
what varieties are suited to your conditions. Tell us the kind 
of soil you have—light, sandy, clay—and we will advise you. 
Gillett’s Ferns and Flowers 
will give the charm of nature to your yard. These include not only hardy wild 
terns, but native orchids, and flowers for wet and swampy spots, rocky hillsides 
and dry woods. We also grow such hardy flowers as primroses, campanulas, 
digitalis, violets, hepaticas, frilliums, and wild flowers which require open sunlight 
welt as shade. If you want a bit of an old-time wildwood garden, with flowers 
ust as Nature grows them—send for our new catalogue and let us advise you 
vhat to select and how to succeed with them. 
EDWARD GILLETT, Box F, Southwlck, Mass. 
A Colonial House and Its Garden 
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end of the lawn running to the street (see 
extreme upper left-hand corner of the 
plan) is a seed bed, and here the garden 
experiments are carried on and the plants 
grown to suitable size for transplanting 
in the flower garden. 
Both of these lawns are suitable for dif¬ 
ferent purposes and are used in different 
moods. The small one is an outdoor 
living-room and suggests the pleasures of 
tea on a long summer afternoon. It of¬ 
fers pleasant little corners for drawing 
away in seclusion. The long one seems 
to call you out to play lawn bowls or of¬ 
fers you the opportunities of other sum¬ 
mer games. 
When you retrace your steps you find 
that the interior of the house does not 
disappoint you after a judgment of the 
high level of the exterior and the garden. 
There is a broad hall that welcomes you 
with its bright enamel contrasted against 
a colorful paper. The sfair well is large 
and open and it seemed to me discloses 
the one appropriate place for a rubber 
plant. The living-room is given over to 
comfort: generously fitted with those 
most decorative of all furnishings, well 
hlled bookcases, and furnished with only 
those antiques that are comfortable and 
inviting. This room is given the best out¬ 
look, and opens onto the porch and sun 
parlor that faces the flower garden. In 
the rear it overlooks the square lawn and 
garden. The dining-room is in white trim 
which, where it surrounds the fireplace, 
is delicately carved in choice detail. A 
Ijedroom above reveals the owner’s appre¬ 
ciation of growing things, in an alcove 
with a bay-window opening off it and 
made to hold an attractive window gar¬ 
den. The interior, just as the exterior, is 
suggestive of the Colonial in its design 
and furnishings, but stops short of imi¬ 
tating the old where modern design and 
invention have seemed preferable, either 
because better fitted for life to-day or be¬ 
cause in some things — heretical though 
this may sound — our modern artisans have 
better substitutes for the work of their 
predecessors. 
The whole place, then, has this strongly 
to argue for it — it is a sane adaptation of 
the Colonial to a modern place. The in¬ 
itial choice of plan was an excellent one 
for the location and it was developed only 
so far as seemed practical. The house 
seems to be the descendant of the early 
settler, just as the man is. He did not 
deem it necessary to show his ancestry by 
wearing knee breeches or buckled boots 
and high crowned hat. Neither did he 
plan his house along lines of similar rea¬ 
soning. In the garden he has put a touch 
of Colonial spirit and at the same time 
given an admirable variety and provided 
for the various tastes of a more cultured 
and more exacting civilization. 
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