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HO USE & GARDEN 
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The soft, rich colorings 
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the wood in beautiful 
shadings. The “painty” 
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of the wood, and paint 
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The Stains last as long 
as the best paint, and 
“grow old gracefully”; 
and the creosote pene¬ 
trates the wood, pre¬ 
serving it and making 
it less inflammable. 
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In Southern Gardens 
(Continued from page 60) 
and apricot, crab apple and flower¬ 
ing cherries, Ccrasus japonic a, Judas 
Trees, Cercis japonica and C. cana¬ 
densis, and Japanese Magnolias, M. 
soulangcana, are seen etched in all 
their dainty loveliness against the 
soft clear blue of the spring skies 
and washed in the showers of an 
April noon. 
The unequaled richness of the red 
Horse Chestnut, Aesculus mbicunda, 
and the fiery scarlet of the maple 
bloom, Acer rubrum, and the Car¬ 
mine Lagcrstroemia of summer flow¬ 
er add deeper notes to the color 
scheme and beauty to the landscape 
picture. 
In striking contrast to the blos¬ 
soms of pink and white and red are 
the trees with flowers of yellow 
tones. Of the larger trees the Var¬ 
nish Tree, Sterculia platanifolia, the 
Laburnum vulgara, the Golden Chain 
Tree, and the Tulip Poplars, Lirio- 
dendron tulipifera, are rich and col¬ 
orful. The Tulip Tree is the hard¬ 
est to transplant, but is much the 
most beautiful of this group. The 
deep orange found in the Tulip flow¬ 
ers is repeated in the blossoms of the 
Golden Rain Tree, Koelreutaria 
paniculata. The creamy yellow, 
Southern Black Haw, Viburnum 
rufidulum, and the Japanese Pago¬ 
da Tree, Sophora japonica, complete 
the yellow side of the scale. 
The feathery purplish plumes of 
the Smoke Tree, Rhus cotinus, form 
a most charming contrast when 
planted in conjunction with the 
tawny yellow flowers of the tulip 
trees. For the best effects the smoke 
trees should be planted in masses, 
and as this is not possible on the 
average small place, other trees 
should be chosen. 
Almost a universal favorite and a 
generally useful quick-growing tree 
is the China Berry in its two forms, 
the old-fashioned kind, Melia aze- 
derach, and the newer and more 
popular Texas Umbrella Tree, M. 
azederach umbraculiformis. Unques¬ 
tionably the delicate flowers of lilac 
and primrose yellow with deeper 
purple tips are beautiful, and the 
fragrance is very penetrating, but 
the tree is such a glutton that it 
absorbs all the soil nourishment 
within many feet of it, and is such 
a pig when it comes to trash that 
it would be more deserving of its 
widespread use if it could be in¬ 
duced to change its bad habits. 
Stately and elegant both in blos¬ 
som and foliage are the broad¬ 
leaved Catalpas, Catalpa bignoniaides 
and C. speciosa. The panicles of 
purple blossom with orange throats 
that cover these trees in May and 
June are very handsome, and the 
pale violet clusters that crown the 
Empress Tree, Panlowniz imperialis, 
make a fitting garland for this queen 
who has come to us from across the 
Pacific. 
The Flowering Willow, Chilopsis 
linearis, and the Vitex agnus-castus, 
the Chaste Tree, are the only trees 
with purple blooms that we have in 
the summer months. The so-called 
Purple Lagcrstroemia indica is so 
nearly a magenta in shade that it 
should he barred from every garden. 
The summer-flowering trees are 
not numerous, but they make up in 
brilliance what they lack in number. 
The Evergreen Privet Trees, Ligus- 
trum japonica, and L. lucidum, be¬ 
gin to bloom in late May and con¬ 
tinue well into June. The flowers 
of characteristic beauty and odor 
are followed by heavy clusters of 
berries which are green with a soft 
bloom in the fall and black in win¬ 
ter. They are truly beautiful, quick¬ 
growing and desirable garden and 
lawn ornaments. They are also par¬ 
ticularly useful for evergreen screen¬ 
ings. Even as far north as West 
Point the Japanese Lilacs, Syringa 
japonica, are hardy and wonderfully 
beautiful. 
Furniture That Is Built-In 
(Continued from page 45) 
of closets and cupboards, mainly of 
purely utilitarian importance, few ex¬ 
amples are to be found. We are able, 
however, to present two of these ex¬ 
amples, representing two very differ¬ 
ent treatments. 
The second of these two (Fig. 
XII), a German interior of consid¬ 
erable elaboration, seems intended to 
show all that can be done in one 
room by this means. The bed is en¬ 
closed in a fixed canopy, although it 
may be drawn out into the room 
when desired. It is surrounded by 
curtains, according to the old Euro¬ 
pean custom, now happily becoming 
obsolete, but these seem intended in 
this case to be drawn back at night, 
screening the bed only during the 
day. The corners of the room (Fig. 
XI) have small built-in cupboards, 
one of them being developed to form 
a dressing-table with shelves and cup¬ 
boards, its central portion being a 
wardrobe whose door is used as a 
mirror. The idea, although perhaps 
somewhat extreme, and a trifle exotic, 
suggests the possibilities of a little 
worked field. 
The other example (Fig. VIII), of 
American origin, is more prosaic but 
of considerable practical value. In 
this case a small bedroom contained 
an old-fashioned wash-basin, but was 
without any closet or wardrobe. The 
drawing shows how a wardrobe with 
a cupboard for hats above, was built 
into the room, the woodwork being 
continued around the basin, with the 
addition of sanitary shelves and a 
mirror above. A window seat with 
a valance, making a good place for 
shoes, etc., greatly added to the at¬ 
tractiveness of the room, the whole 
being accomplished at a slight cost, 
and without removal of the existing 
plumbing. 
A frequent pitfall to the inexperi¬ 
enced is the finish given this built- 
in furniture. Often it seems desir¬ 
able to the amateur to make these 
pieces appear as furniture rather than 
as a part of the room. With this idea 
such pieces are treated with a differ¬ 
ent finish from that used on the 
standing woodwork, and always with 
disastrous effect. If the corner cup¬ 
board in a room, where ivory finish 
woodwork prevails, is stained mahog¬ 
any and is complemented by a ma¬ 
hogany mantel in the same room, this 
will stand out aggressively, and the 
room will present a restless effect 
which is most unsatisfactory. In the 
true Colonial house the doors are 
frequently all mahogany, while the 
standing woodwork is all enamel, 
showing the beautiful ivory tone 
which is so typical, but the mantel is 
always finished in the same ivory 
tone, and with the exception of the 
hand-rail of the balustrade there is 
no mahogany introduced save in the 
doors as mentioned. 
