HOUSE AND GARDEN 
June, 
1912 
for trees what trained surgeons do for human beings. They 
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m the Davey Institute of Tree Surgery, founded by John 
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your trees. Ail graduates are employed by the Davey Tree 
I Expert Company. WE NEVER LET GOOD MEN GO. 
I Your trees may be unsound and yet appear sound They 
1 may have weak crotches. The first high wind will blow 
H them over. Loss of property and life may result. H 
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have and their kind. If agreeable to you we will 
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1^1^ out obligation on your part. Address ^ 
The Davey Tree Expert Co., 
22 s Root Street, ICent, Ohio 
, Branch Offices: 
New York, N. Y., Chicago. III., Toronto. OnL F 
Canadian Address: 
630 Conf. Life Building, Toronto MM 
Representatives 
Available 
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where ^ 
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[Father of Tree Surgery] 
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A I\Iaine Garden 
{Continued from f^age 26) 
head awaiting their turn. 
Other nooks there are on this hillside — 
sheltered ones under a stone wall, where 
grow hollyhocks and Canterbury bells, and 
ever the wonderful blue of Penobscot Bay 
with the violet haze of the distant hills 
to complete the rare enchantment of the 
spot. 
If. however, to yon this is still a picture 
conjured in the brain of a dreamer and 
enthusiast, come with me along the gar¬ 
den path and through the low-growing 
juniper to the rustic gate into “The woods 
that bring the sunset near." Under the 
well-nigh impenetrable shadows of the 
spruce avenue with ever a golden portal 
to lure us on. we come out at last into the 
full glory of the sinking sun. Earth and 
sky and sea have transformed, as by 
magic, this humdrum old world of ours, 
into a glorious panorama of such won¬ 
drous beauty as holds us spellbound. 
If yet you are loath to grant all the 
claims of the enthusiast. I must perforce 
admit that we have come to the parting of 
the ways: you, to retrace your steps to 
your own prosaic, work-a-day world; I, 
also to a prosaic world, but with thank¬ 
fulness in my heart for the uplift that 
can take me away from the weeding and 
grubbing—or, rather, that comes because 
of it. 
Suitable Garden Shelters 
(Continued from page 37) 
thatch, which is an exaggeration already 
falling into disfavor. 
Cedar is not the only wood that may 
be used for rustic work. Effective results 
are obtained with silver birch and white 
maple; but these rarer trees are so orna¬ 
mental in themselves that one is loath to 
cut them down for building material. 
To furnish a rustic summer house is 
no great problem, for a built-in bench 
and central table answer all requirements. 
Perhaps for the average small Ameri¬ 
can country residence, the semi-classic 
summer-house or bower is the style most 
often resorted to when the question of 
garden architecture comes up—the style 
we have described as “simply an artistic 
arrangement of wooden posts and sawed 
crosspieces.” This for the very obvious 
reason that it adapts itself to almost any 
unpretentious house and garden, besides 
being in itself always in good taste. As 
the old builders used it, arbor and pavilion 
generally accompanied each other, for 
these early men had a keen appreciation 
of architectural layout in their schemes. 
They made their arbor terminate in a lit¬ 
tle house and to obtain seclusion in the 
latter they made use of delicate lattice 
work ; for. unlike the formal classic shel¬ 
ter this one is meant to be vine-covered. 
None knew better than our forefathers 
what were the best vines to train up such 
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