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House & Garden 
The Vogue of 
Painted Furniture 
^Xhe cabinetmakers of 
olden times left no finer 
heritage than the beauti¬ 
ful Painted Furniture be¬ 
queathed to posterity by 
the Brothers Adam. 
^ Happily, indeed, this de- 
^ lightful fashion of Georgian 
days is witnessing a revival at 
this time. Exemplifying this 
revival is the exquisite Painted 
Furniture available at no pro¬ 
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—quaint little groups for the 
Breakfast Porch, charming day- 
beds and other pieces for the 
Chamber and Boudoir, grace¬ 
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more formal rooms, each object 
decorated in harmonious re¬ 
straint. 
^ The collection on view in 
^ this interesting establish¬ 
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elsewhere retailed. 
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The Final Touch to the Landscape Scheme 
{Continued from page 70) 
soothing and striking with the blue 
of wild iris, the green spears of their 
leaves, waving rushes and the gleam¬ 
ing flames of cardinal flowers. In 
some situations where the contour of 
the ground makes such a course pos¬ 
sible, even a tiny streamlet can be 
dammed to form an artificial and yet 
naturalistic pool of considerable size. 
Again, water can sometimes be piped 
from the house system, or from some 
more distant constant supply, and 
brought to fill a course which has all 
the marks of having been put there 
by Nature herself. 
In every case involving a flowing 
stream, remember this one cardinal 
point: the water must run dowm from 
the point at which it first becomes 
visible. The illusion of naturalism 
should be perfect, and this can never 
be attained unless the brook follows 
the course which the laws of gravity 
and common-sense mark out for it. 
Constructing the Pool 
Just as water features can be 
grouped under tw-o broad heads, so 
are there two general methods of 
construction which fit most cases. 
The first of these involves the use 
of a concrete lining and bottom, and 
is especially adapted to the formal 
pool. For a lilj' pool, an excavation 
of the desired shape is dug to a depth 
of 3' or so and lined with 6" of con¬ 
crete, as shown in one of the illustra¬ 
tions. A rather rich mixture should 
be used, the right proportions being 
2 bags Portland cement, 3 barrowfuls 
sand, and 5 barrowfuls fine broken 
stone. Galvanized wire netting in¬ 
corporated in the concrete will 
strengthen it materially. If the pool 
is larger than 12' or 15', it is a good 
idea to use regular concrete reinforc¬ 
ing rods instead of the netting. 
As the different sorts of water 
plants require different proportions of 
soil and water, some sort of vertical 
divisions should be arranged in the 
bottom of the pool to hold the vary¬ 
ing depths of earth in place. These 
partitions may be made of concrete, 
but it will be simpler to let them be 
merely w'ooden frames, which can be 
moved if you wdsh to change the gen¬ 
eral arrangement of the planting. 
The margin of the formal pool may 
be finished wdth bricks set in concrete, 
or with concrete alone. In either case, 
this coping should be wdde enough, 
and raised sufficiently from the 
ground, to form a definite boundary. 
Outside of it may be a turf or gravel 
walk, or any other treatment suffi¬ 
ciently formal to meet the require¬ 
ments of harmony. 
As far as the underwater lining is 
concerned, the informal pool may be 
made in the same way as the formal 
one, or it may have no artificial lin¬ 
ing at all. This latter treatment, of 
course, presupposes a soil which is 
sufficiently watertight to prevent the 
contents of the pool from vanishing 
overnight. Should the natural soil be 
porous, the bed of the pool may be 
“puddled”—lined to a depth of about 
1' with clay mixed into a stiff paste 
with water and tamped down hard. 
This “puddling” must be carefully 
and thoroughly done to be successful. 
Plants and Planting 
If you plan to plant water-lilies or 
other things in the pool, there must 
be no more than a very slight current 
in the water. In fact, the ideal lily 
pool has no outlet at all, the water 
remaining in it except as evaporation 
and absorption by the plants them¬ 
selves remove it. The proper level in 
such a pool, unless it is supplied from 
a natural source, can readily be main¬ 
tained by the aid of the garden hose, 
thus doing away with the necessity of 
installing pipes. Mosquitoes can be 
adequately guarded against by put¬ 
ting in a few goldfish, which besides 
devouring the insects’ larvae, will be 
decorative in themselves. A proper 
balance of fish and plants will also 
keep the water pure. 
\Vithout a doubt the most popular 
plants for the water garden are the 
water-lilies, especially the Nymphaeas 
and their hybrids in wonderful shades 
of pink, crimson, yellow and lilac. 
These varieties need from 1' to 3' 
of water, and 1' to 2' of soil. They 
are especially suitable for the small 
or medium-sized pool and, like all 
water-lilies, need full sun. 
The Nelumbiums are considerably 
larger than the Nymphaeas, and con- 
sequentlj' require more space. Their 
leaves stand well above the water, un¬ 
like those of the other varieties. Two 
feet of soil and 6" of water should be 
provided for them. 
Rich black muck from some pond 
or bog which already supports a rank 
growth of vegetation is excellent soil 
for water-lilies. Lacking it, make up 
a rich compost of 2/3 well-rotted cow 
manure and 1/3 of heavy soil. 
And now, how many lilies shall you 
plant to make your water garden a 
real “feature?” 
My first impulse is to say “about 
half as many as you think you need.” 
On second thoughts, though. I'll 
amend that by saying “as many as you 
want, so long as you do not lose sight 
of the fact that the water rather than 
the lilies is the thing that counts.” 
Time and again one sees water gar¬ 
dens so crowded with leaves and blos¬ 
soms that the water is scarcely visible 
anywhere; and this is not as it should 
be. Leave at least half of the water 
surface clear and unobstructed; it 
will reward you many times over with 
its reflections of the sky and the 
white summer clouds, and the little 
wrinkled ripples which darken it on 
windy afternoons. 
The Decorator as Author 
{Continued from page 45) 
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