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House & Garden 
The Rookwood 
Pottery Co. 
This Is the NEW Rose 
LOS ANGELES 
The Fairest Flower of 
CALIFORNIA 
This new rose, originating 
in “The Land of Sunshine and 
Flowers,”- is an American 
Rose for American Gardens. 
It is surpassingly bril¬ 
liant in color, beautiful 
in form, and exceedingly 
free in bloom. 
The editor of the 
American' Rose An¬ 
nual says: “The plants 
you sent in March of 
your American-bred 
rose ‘Los Angeles,’ 
have grown astonish¬ 
ingly, and the gor¬ 
geous ilowcrs of sunshine and gold fairly 
glow with beauty, by daylight and night- 
light. I am delighted.” 
j. HORACE McFarland 
H arrisburg, Penna., June 23, 1916. 
New in Color —Flame pink, toned with 
coral, and shaded with translucent gold 
at base of petals. 
Profuse in bloom —An unbroken succession of large, perfect flowers from 
early summer to late fall. From bud to bloom it is unsurpassed. 
Strong in growth -Tall, vigorous canes, each one bearing a large number of 
superb flowers. Foliage mildew-proof. 
We will send strong two-year plants to any part of the United States for 
$2 each. Larger quantities at same rate. 
These plants are cut back to 18 inches, and will bloom this year. Cultural 
directions with each plant. 
HOWARD & SMITH, Rose Specialists 
Olive and 9th Streets LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 
Sun Room 
and Garden 
Indoors and Out 
are made attractive 
through the judicious 
use of well-designed 
and carefully made 
Architectural 
Faience 
The Native Architecture of Bermuda 
{Continued from page 60) 
“St. John’s Hill House,” another 
dwelling erected about 1688 or 1690, 
is representative of the one floor type 
of house so prevalent in Bermuda. 
Like “Inwood” it started to be cruci¬ 
form, but wandered off into various 
irregularities not shown in the pic¬ 
ture. It is more reminiscent of 
Gothic influences than “Inwood”; 
witness the buttresses, the highly 
arched dripstones and the ball finial 
surmounting the peak of the gable. 
The great exterior chimney with its 
battered slope ascending by step-like 
gradations is thoroughly characteris¬ 
tic of old Bermuda houses and calls 
to mind some of the things one sees 
in the Cotswolds and in other parts 
of England in cottage architecture. 
The refined mouldings of the chim¬ 
ney-top are likewise thoroughly typi¬ 
cal of Bermuda. The soft stone 
lends itself admirably to such treat¬ 
ment and in executing this detail the 
old workmen were but perpetuating 
conscientiously a craft tradition they 
had brought from England. It will 
be noticed that wall and roof at the 
gable ends join at a right angle with¬ 
out any barge, capping or eave pro¬ 
jection,—an interesting bit of Gothic 
tradition. 
Passing to “Water Lot,” a house 
of slightly later date—it was built 
between 1708 and 1710—perhaps the 
first unwonted feature to catch the 
eye is the shaped gable end of the 
little transept-like wing on the side 
toward the road. 
Why the Dutch Gables? 
In 1708 Good Queen .A.nne was 
on the throne and Dutch influences 
were paramount in England. It may 
be that the fashion of shaping the 
gables is to be traced through an Eng¬ 
lish medium to Holland. It is much 
more likely, however, that the Ber¬ 
mudian shaped gable originated in 
this way: The illustration clearly 
shows the overlapping layers of the 
stone roof tiles. Successive annual 
whitewashings and cement washings 
in course of time make an irregularly 
waved line at the gable end. The 
curved shaping is merely a device to 
make the gable end symmetrical. 
The interior view of “Water Lot” 
shows the prevalent Bermuda “tray” 
ceiling carried up into the height of 
the roof—a sensible device for a 
warm climate and one that we might 
well adopt for summer houses. 
The exterior view calls attention 
to the great importance attached to 
garden walls, gates and gate-posts, 
even when the house and lot are 
small. The walls of “Water Lot” are 
washed a soft grey. Greys, drabs 
and white are the prevailing wall 
washes, while many of the Georgian 
houses rejoice in a coat of buff or 
pinkish buff color. 
“Waterville,” built about 1720 or 
1730, exhibits rather more traces of 
Queen Anne architectural influence 
in its hipped roof, its modified classic 
porch and the general plan, which is 
in the form of an E with the wings 
projecting toward the water front. 
Curiously enough, the finial knobs of 
an earlier date have been retained and 
set at the junctions of the ridgepoles. 
The Georgian phase of Bermuda 
architecture is represented for us by 
“Bloomfield,” a stately mansion with 
wings extending on each side in tjie 
manner of the old Maryland and ^’ir- 
ginia houses, built about 1760 or 
1765. When we say that “Bloom¬ 
field” is Georgian, one must remem¬ 
ber that it is Georgian as susceptible 
of interpretation in Bermuda mate¬ 
rials. Bermuda coral rock lends it¬ 
self admirably to mouldings but, by 
reason of its softness and fragility, 
it is not a good medium for the exe¬ 
cution of pillars, capitals and finely 
detailed projections, consequently a 
great deal of Georgian ornamenta¬ 
tion had to be modified and the more 
elaborate features reserved for in¬ 
doors. The fan light; the rustica¬ 
tion above and at the sides of the 
arched door; the projecting moulded 
corners which take the place of pilas¬ 
ters or quoins; the hipped roof; 
above all, the general plan with the 
symmetrical central structure flanked 
by lower wings — all these features 
strongly mark Georgian relationship 
without calling upon the plentiful in¬ 
terior detail to establish the claim. 
The absence of a cornice will strike 
the reader as unusual. That, how¬ 
ever, is one of the peculiarities of 
Bermudian Georgian. So far as the 
writer remembers, there is only one 
Georgian house in Bermuda that pos¬ 
sesses a well-defined decorative cor¬ 
nice. The short eaves and lack of 
cornice carry an Italian suggestion. 
The E form of the main building 
marks an English plan tradition 
which few of our American Geor¬ 
gian houses have followed. 
For American Adaptation 
So much for the sketch of the char¬ 
acteristic features of typical Bermuda 
houses. It now remains to be seen 
what application can be drawn from 
them for our own use. 
The small houses of one floor, such 
as “St. John's Hill House,” “Water 
Lot” or “Waterville” offer several 
types that could readily be employed 
to advantage with small tracts of 
ground. Their scale is small and 
even where a lot is diminutive, they 
do not appear crowded. They are 
dignified in their simplicity and far 
more comely and architecturally co¬ 
herent than the much overworked 
bungalow of the States. 
Because their scale is small and 
because they ramble along and seem 
to cling to the ground, they are more 
agreeable on a small plot than a 
perky two-story structure that al¬ 
ways looks too big for its boots. In 
point of actual size and number of 
rooms, though they appear small, 
they are deceptive and usually con¬ 
tain quite as much space and quite 
as many rooms as the ordinary house 
of two floors. In plan they are flexi¬ 
ble and can be made to suit almost 
any needs. Furthermore, they are 
cool in summer and may be made 
warm in winter, certainly recommen¬ 
dations for a country house and par¬ 
ticularly a house intended mainly for 
summer occupancy. 
The tray ceiling is another feature 
worth favorable consideration. 
Besides all these points there is the 
strong picturesque appeal. They are 
not ostentatious nor necessarily ex¬ 
pensive of construction but they are 
satisfying and full of dignity and dis¬ 
tinction, qualities which the average 
hungalow, with its complement of 
ugly, rigid mission furniture can 
scarcely be said to possess. 
Two factors in producing this self- 
respecting aspect are unquestionably 
the wall and gatewaj^ factors which 
we are too prone to overlook in con¬ 
nection with most of our small houses 
and we thereby detract from their 
finished appearance. 
It is not, of course, to be under¬ 
stood that the direct reproduc¬ 
tion of Bermuda houses is advocated. 
Such procedure would rarely prove 
satisfactory. Their chief value to us 
lies in the suggestions they afford, 
and in this respect they are singu¬ 
larly rich. 
Last of all, the}^ afford a fresh and 
hopeful note of sane variety and are 
thorouglih' livable and homelike in 
mien. For those who must have' 
porches, porches can easih- be added 
without sacrificing harmony 
