House and Garden 
RUSSWIN 
HARDWARE 
Lancaster Design 
Elizabethan 
Booklet of designs will 
be furnished on request 
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Information Dept. 30 Broad Street, New York 
TRANSPLANTING TREES AT NIGHT 
TT has long been known that bud- 
ding trees, when transplanted in 
the evening, are more likely to thrive than 
those moved in the daytime, says “The 
Garden.” A French expert has gone 
a step farther, and claims that distinctly 
beneficial results can be gained by trans¬ 
planting in the dead of night. EEe has 
transplanted large trees without losing 
any by the adoption of this method.— 
Park and Cemetery. 
Sheraton Furniture 
T he term “ Renaissance ” is usually applied 
to the great classic revival which begin¬ 
ning in Italy in the fifteenth century 
gradually spread throughout Europe, but the 
eighteenth century had also its Renaissance in 
France to express itself in Louis XVI style; in 
England it made itself felt in the work of 
Robert and James Adam and in the furniture of 
Heppelwhite and Sheraton. 
To the Adam brothers was really due the 
reaction that took place both in architecture 
and furniture making. The brothers did not 
create the style which bears their name but 
they adapted to English conditions a style as old 
as ornament itself and which had already gained 
a footing in France. 
The influence of the Adam brothers on the 
furniture makers of their time was very marked. 
1 he later work of Heppelwhite and more 
especially of Sheraton was largely shaped by 
them. Sheraton did not imitate; he was too 
great for that; but he embodied in his furniture 
a feeling for simplicity which he himself was 
generous enough to attribute to the brothers. 
In this country the Adam type of furniture is 
best known by the work of Thomas Sheraton. 
Heppelwhite’s furniture also shows a strong 
Adam influence. The characteristics of the 
“ Sheraton Bureau." model from Berkey & Gay Furniture Co., 
Grand Rapids, Michigan 
Adam style were, to quote an old writer, “ sim¬ 
plicity, elegance, slenderness and low relief.” 
Chippendale won most of his laurels by his 
exquisite carving and the masterly way he 
applied ornament to form. This statement 
refers to his best work, which was executed 
before he adopted his rococo methods. His 
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