76 
House & Garden 
Get Away From the City This Summer 
S OMEWHERE away from the dust and 
noise of the city, is the place you want to 
live this Summer. Perhaps it is on the 
shore of a mountain lake, at the seashore, or near a 
rushing brook under the trees. And here is the little 
thatched cottage to put up on that spot. Picturesque, 
comfortable, sturdy, it is a good example of the 
Using Hand-Woven Coverlets 
(Continued from page 74) 
ed as much too dirty to be sanitary. 
Heavy coverlets make very pretty 
rugs. Either use your spread double 
or line it with ticking, or, if possible, 
something heavier and softer, other¬ 
wise it will not stay in place, nor 
will it stand hard wear. Personally 
I have always felt them too good to 
be walked on, although as a rug that 
does not get severe use, a heavy 
coverlet will give years of service. 
The long old-fashioned sofa that 
originally boasted a haircloth cover¬ 
ing is lovely upholstered with a cov¬ 
erlet, and if the left-over pieces are 
used on the reverse side as pillow 
covers, the effect is really charming. 
So much for the specimens in good 
condition, but alas, we find many 
very much worn. Choose the strong, 
less used part, and cover the rest of 
an old - fashioned straight - backed 
chair; a small bit will cover a foot¬ 
stool to match. For the porch or 
den where a heavy table cover is de¬ 
sired, cut a square and make tassels 
for the corners from the ravellings. 
The poorest scraps, well darned, will 
cover sofa pillows. 
As the principle motive in the guest 
chamber nothing could be more at¬ 
tractive, especially if the furniture is 
Colonial. Use a coverlet on your 
four-poster; cross-stitch a runner 
for the bureau using the motives in 
the bedspread as a design, and the 
same color. Cover the seats of the 
chamber chairs with bits from a 
much worn spread. If the room is 
very large and can stand it, put a 
heavy coverlet on the floor, choosing 
blue and white, or better, grey wall 
paper if you are using the blue and 
white spread, and your room will 
have an air of distinction that no 
quality of machine-made furnishings 
could possibly give. 
Some of the coverlets have very 
attractive borders which seldom show 
as much wear as the centers. Cut 
these borders off, and apply them to 
heavy crash to be used as over cur¬ 
tains. I use such a valance across 
the top of my dining-room windows, 
as I have English ivy climbing up 
the sides. The valance is a piece of 
crash nailed to a 2" board, which in 
turn is nailed to the top of the win¬ 
dow trim. There is no fullness, and 
the strip of old blue and white 
spread, which makes the border, is 
very decorative. 
I Bossert Houses I 
The Possibilities of a Small Formal Garden 
Built by the Bossert logical, 
economical method, all the 
bother and fuss of building is 
done for you, and you buy the 
finished product as you do in 
every other line of manufac¬ 
ture. 
House contains 15 x 15 liv¬ 
ing room, two bedrooms, kit¬ 
chen and bath. It can be 
unassembled and put up again 
any number of times with¬ 
out deterioration, and yet is 
stronger than any other type 
of frame building. Vital econ¬ 
omies effected by the Bossert 
Method of buying materials 
and manufacturing enable us 
to deliver this house for 
Fourteen hundred dollars F. O. B. Brooklyn 
Send 12 cents today for complete catalog 
showing Bossert details oi construction. 
We also manufacture the smaller “portable” or “knock down” houses. 
LOUIS BOSSERT & SONS, INC. 
1306 Grand Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
p m 
Garden Ornaments 
In Cast Stone and Metal 
A rtistic in design, per¬ 
manent in construction— 
Mott ornaments in cast 
stone are appropriate for gar¬ 
den or interior decoration. 
They can be obtained in 
white marble, granite or antique 
finish. 
Mott metal ornaments are 
prepared in special designs to 
meet every architectural de¬ 
mand. 
We issue separate catalogs of Dis- 
olay Fountains, Drinking Fountains, 
Bird Fountains, Electroliers, Vases, 
Grilles and Gateways, Settees and 
Chairs, Statuary, Aquariums, Tree 
Guards, Sanitary Fittings for stables 
and cow barns. 
Address Ornamental Department 
THE J. L. MOTT IRON WORKS 
Fifth Avenue and 17th Street, New York 
HBir 
(Continued from page 49) 
Then there should be plants put in 
especially for autumn blooming. The 
hardy lavender and white chrysan¬ 
themums, dahlias and Michaelmas 
daisies all are excellent fall bloom¬ 
ers and are consistent with the plan 
of this garden. 
As TO THE Boundary 
A low growing hedge of the Ar- 
moor River privet, cut with inverted 
curves, makes a beautiful outline for 
the garden, and does not hide it as 
would a straight high hedge. If there 
is room to plant flowering shrubs 
in the corners they give a sense of 
protection and an air of secrecy 
which is inviting to the birds. There 
are shrubs that bloom at all seasons 
in many varied colors and they may 
be selected to harmonize with the 
flower borders. Among those that 
should be chosen for this garden are 
Spircea Van Hoiittei; the flowering 
peach in tones of deep rose, pink and 
white; Japanese cherries; the mid¬ 
summer blooming buddleia, Spircea 
Watterer, the autumnal Rose of 
Sharon and crepe myrtle, and the 
abelia. The dwarf evergreens, 
trimmed in fanciful shapes, add for¬ 
mality to the small garden, and give 
a bit of life to it through the winter. 
If there is ground outside the gar¬ 
den, a row of dwarf peach and cher¬ 
ry trees behind the hedge creates a 
lovely background. In any case, 
there should be dogwood, a red-bud 
tree, or an evergreen to break the 
sharp outline of your garden’s edge. 
The plan described here is prac¬ 
tical for a suburban place where the 
land is limited, for this garden can 
be planted in a plot 70' x 100' or in 
even less space. The possibilities of 
the small formal garden are unlim¬ 
ited because it is adaptable to city, 
suburb or real country. 
How Your Garden Grows This Year 
(Continued from page 54) 
So far, however, we have con¬ 
sidered only surface cultivation. Let 
us suppose that we resume our little 
ramble in the garden early next 
morning. There in all likelihood we 
will find Pat knee-deep in the cab¬ 
bages, and though there are no weeds 
to be seen, and his brogans are soaked 
through with the dew, he is hoeing 
away so joyfully that he has failed to 
notice there is no faintest wisp of 
smoke from his black clay pipe. 
“What ho!’’ you say. “How now, 
fellow, I thought you used your steel 
only against your enemies, the 
weeds ?’’ 
“What hoe?’’ says Pat, looking up. 
“Why, the biggest one there was in 
the shed, to be sure. ’Tis stirrin’ 
the soil I am this mornin’, not chop- 
pin’ weeds. Come back b’ Sunday, 
and y’ll see how they’ve thanked me 
for it. ’Tis a good stirrin’ of the 
dirt like this afther a bit o’ rain will 
put stout hearts into them.” 
And so it will be again, “Why?” 
Perhaps Pat could not tell you, but 
“there’s a reason.” 
You may remember, if you studied 
Alice in Wonderland in your course 
in Logical Folly at college, that at 
the tea party of the Mad Hatter and 
the March Hare, after finishing one 
course everybody moved along to a 
new place. A good stirring of the 
soil serves in a way to move the 
places along. It breaks up, pulver¬ 
izes and redistributes the soil par¬ 
ticles so that new food supplies are 
released to become dissolved in the 
soil moisture either immediately or 
more quickly than they would have 
been if left undisturbed. The loosen¬ 
ing or stirring of the soil also gets 
the air through it, and in early spring 
while it is still cold, aids materially 
to warm it up—and air and warmth 
are both important in quickening the 
chemical changes in the soil, which 
must accompany or slightly precede 
vigorous growth. 
When to Cultivate 
Summing up, then, it is evident 
that we cultivate for three good rea¬ 
sons : To destroy weeds; to conserve 
soil moisture; to stimulate plant I 
(Continued on page 78) I 
