HOUSE AND GARDEN 
ULY, 1913 
it is difficult to avoid doing a little hoeing, 
weeding, or bug-picking every time the 
plot is visited, which in our case was apt 
to be several times a day. We do not 
doubt that if an actual record of the time 
spent in this garden were charged against 
it, the balance would have been on the 
debit side of the ledger. Then, if we are 
to show any advantage in the work done, 
it must be from a different standpoint. 
We believe this may be readily shown, 
first, because the varieties grown were 
for the most part varieties that could 
not be secured from our huckster, as he 
grows vegetables not for quality but for 
yield and appearance. Second, we have 
our vegetables fresh from the garden, 
which is an item that is universally un¬ 
derestimated. There is a deal of dif¬ 
ference between vegetables taken fresh 
from the garden and those which have 
been on the market for several hours, or 
even days. If one needs to be convinced 
of this, it will be necessary only to pick 
green corn from the garden, allow it to 
stand for twenty-four hours, then cook 
and compare it with that which is taken 
directly from the garden. This is equally 
applicable to the other vegetables, as rad¬ 
ishes, lettuce and celery. 
The Garden for the Colonial Type 
of House 
(Continued from page 37) 
embroidery or knitting at hand, the flowers 
or vegetables that were growing because 
of the digging which they had done. 
So the garden about the Colonial house 
must have plenty of such features; and, 
of course, an arbor or an arch will afford 
support for a climbing rose or two, for 
clematis, or honeysuckle, or trumpet vine. 
The Colonial arbor should be a simple 
affair, however, with really no attempt at 
elaboration. Rustic work should be abso¬ 
lutely taboo, for it is out of key with 
everything Colonial. Similarly, the straight 
rose “arches” or supports along a garden 
walk, which modern gardens so frequently 
show, is out of place. The Colonial arch 
is truly an arch, made of dressed lumber, 
with a “keystone” of wood, suitably placed 
if not structurally necessary, very often 
adorning it. And everything about the 
garden must retain this certain little for¬ 
mal, “dressed up” atmosphere; nothing 
like the modern sprawling relaxation, nor 
the affected aping of nature which some 
periods show, belong with the Colonial. 
Well-bred repose they took in the old Co¬ 
lonial gardens, and it is to well-bred re¬ 
pose that the modern Colonial garden 
should invite. It should be the quiet, se¬ 
cluded retreat of gentlefolk; walled in, 
planted in, trimly kept, constantly used, 
loved, and enjoyed, personally tended 
whether great or small, and filled with just 
as much as it will hold, as the English 
garden is; and it should rise to the dig¬ 
nity of usefulness as well as possess the 
delights of beauty. 
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