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T his beautiful little Colonial House will 1 
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An Ideal Summer Home 
The Ever Essential Rose 
{Continued from fage 88) 
gested, is extremely important. Hav¬ 
ing done that, obtain a good com¬ 
pressed air sprayer, or if your garden 
is a large one, a portable or wheel¬ 
barrow type sprayer. As soon as the 
rose bushes have leaves out in the 
spring, or as soon as you have 
planted them, begin spraying with the 
following combinations: Bordeaux 
mixture plus arsenate of lead, plus 
nicotine sulphate. This is a general 
purpose spray; the Bordeaux-lead 
mixture is diluted according to di¬ 
rections and one teaspoonful of the 
nicotine sulphate ( 40 %) added to 
two gallons of the spray. 
This spray should be repeated 
enough to keep new growth covered 
through the growing season, and 
especially when trouble is to be ex¬ 
pected. Bordeaux mixture protects 
the foliage from fungous diseases, 
the arsenate of lead destroys eating 
insects of all kinds, and the nicotine 
takes care of the rose aphis and other 
“suckers.” If black spot, or mildew, 
appears in spite of the Bordeaux 
mixture, use potassium sulphide, one 
ounce to two gallons of water. For 
the pernicious rose beetle or rose bug, 
the only sure and effective thing is 
hand picking early in the morning, 
into a small can half full of kero¬ 
sene and water. With a small, point¬ 
ed stick or paddle, one can give many 
of these creatures a morning bath in 
a very short time. For roses on the 
porch or near the house, where the 
slight discoloration of the foliage 
caused by arsenate of lead or Bor¬ 
deaux is objectionable, a spray of am- 
moniacal copper carbonate and Paris 
green may be substituted. Experi¬ 
ment two or three times with the 
Paris green to be sure that 3-011 get 
it strong enough to do the work but 
not so strong as to inj ure the foliage; 
or dry Bordeaux or lead may be 
used. Root rot, briar scab, and other 
diseases’ may attack individual spec¬ 
imens in spite of this protection and 
should be kept from spreading by 
destroying the plants which are vic¬ 
tims of them, or by cutting out the 
canes or parts infected if this is 
possible. 
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The Group in Eurniture Arrangement 
{Continued from page 35 ) 
picture, mirror or other wall decora¬ 
tion of considerable size. In such a 
case the piece of “wall furniture” be¬ 
neath must be of sufficient size and 
breadth to create balance and to be 
the nucleus of the group. Otherwise 
the wall decoration will appear to lack 
foundation and to be topheav}^ Ordi¬ 
narily, wall decorations will not domi¬ 
nate the placing of furniture; but 
exceptional cases of this kind must 
be carefully handled. It is possible 
that the picture or hanging, along 
with the pieces of furniture set be¬ 
neath it, may form enough of a group 
to satisfy the eye without the addi¬ 
tion of lesser objects on floor or wall. 
And be it remembered, in considering 
“wall groups,” that what goes on the 
wall is to be accounted just as much 
a part of the furniture group as what 
stands on the floor. 
The Proper Balance 
To insure balance it is, moreover, 
necessary to avoid getting too many 
large or heavy group centers in one 
end or one corner of a room. The 
heights of the pieces of “wall furni¬ 
ture” should be varied and l)roken, 
not showing a preponderance of low 
things on one side of a room and of 
high things on the other. Likewise, 
in determining the placing of pieces 
that are to be group centers, consider 
the way in which light enters and 
strikes the different parts of the room 
and refrain from putting an incon¬ 
spicuous object in a relatively dark 
corner, where it and the attendant 
objects of its group will be overshad¬ 
owed. Substitute for such a position 
some bold and strong group center. 
In grouping the “floor furniture” 
the trial diagrams will prove invalu¬ 
able. Careful placement of furniture 
by groups does not necessarily imply 
formality of arrangement. The same 
room may be either formally or in¬ 
formally arranged according to two 
different schemes. As the diagrams 
indicate the architectural axes, it is 
possible to experiment with a number 
of different schemes of group placing. 
The groups may be arranged on axis, 
as in diagram I; or quite differently 
but still on axis, as in diagram II. 
Both of these are for the same room, 
a room whose architectural features 
are S3'mmetrically placed. 
While the symmetrical grouping of 
furniture in accord with architectural 
axes has a tendenc3- toward for¬ 
mality of effect, the result is not b3- 
an\' means necessariF formal. Dia¬ 
gram III shows the same room as 
shown in diagrams I and II, but indi¬ 
cates an unsymmetrical placing of 
groups, that is to say, an arrange¬ 
ment not on axis. An unsymmetrical 
or “off axis” arrangement of groups 
often entails greater difficulty of suc¬ 
cessful achievement than does the 
symmetrical arrangement, but the re¬ 
sult is frequently delightful and apt 
to display more originality and indi¬ 
vidual personality. Incidentally the 
unsymmetrical arrangement of groups 
is well suited to small or irregular¬ 
shaped rooms. Diagram IV shows an 
irregular-shaped room where the fur¬ 
niture groups are arranged according 
to the architectural axes and diagram 
V shows the same room with the 
groups arranged off axis. An exami¬ 
nation of these diagrams will show 
how the sr'stem of experimentation is 
worked. The same method may be 
applied to any room. To follow out 
a symmetrical and axial arrangement 
of the main groups, it is advisable to 
place the large pieces where they will 
stress the architectural centers of the 
room. At the same time the expres¬ 
sion of an agreeable degree of inti¬ 
macy and flexibility may be conveyed 
by a few independent or “off axis” 
group compositions. 
Each Room a Separate Problem 
It is impossible to give suggestions 
which will apply to ever}" room. Each 
room has a different set of needs and 
conditions. The onh’ thing to do is 
to assimilate the methods and prin¬ 
ciples of group formation and ar¬ 
rangement and apply them. 
Care must be taken to avoid crowd¬ 
ing, which may result from bad group 
arrangement, as well as from using 
too many pieces of furniture. Keep¬ 
ing the middle part of a room free 
helps to create an impression of space. 
If a room appears too long for its 
breadth, break up the length by inter¬ 
posing a floor group somewhere near 
the middle. Cultivate a keen appre¬ 
ciation of contour, for it is indispen¬ 
sable in the composition of groups. 
Perception of the fine qualities of 
contour and of the properties of 
group formation involves more subtle 
mental processes than a mere taste 
for color and pattern. 
