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Housed Garden 
Home of Victor H. Wigglesworth, Belmont, 
Mass. Bates & Wigglesworth, Architects 
and Engineers, Belmont, Mass. 
A Beautiful Finish 
for this Beautiful Home 
BAV STATE 
A BOVE is shown the new home 
l owned and designed by Victor 
H. Wigglesworth, of Belmont, Mass. 
At first glance there is nothing un¬ 
usual about this house. But closer 
inspection shows that the walls are 
not clap-board as they seem, but are 
made from solid concrete. 
For the surface finish Mr. Wiggles¬ 
worth specified Bay State Brick and 
Cement Coating, and Bay State in 
adding the final touch of beauty to 
the house weather-proofed it as well. 
For Bay State creeps into every 
pore and crevice. It permanently 
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of beautiful tints -and in pure rich 
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Gardens That Rise And Fall 
{Continued from page 90) 
Where there is a change in grade too 
steep to be easily passed over, stones 
may be set into the ground in the sem¬ 
blance of rough steps, and planted with 
overhanging or creeping things much in 
the manner which Nature uses in wild 
settings. 
't he charm of such a scheme will de¬ 
pend upon the unexpected in the twists 
and turnings of the path and the ups and 
downs. That which is just around the 
corner, over the next hill, or just out of 
sight tends to lure the walker on. 
These paths may skirt lawns, being 
hidden from the eye by tall shrubs; 
cross miniature brooks by rustic bridges 
or stepping stones; follow the edges of 
little pools and ponds; come into open 
glades where tall trees over-arch, and the 
sunlight filters through to dance among 
the ferns and pale woodland flowers that 
lift their graceful heads in such quiet 
spots; then out again into clearings, whose 
flat open areas may be treated as indi¬ 
vidual gardens, and planted with more 
gardenesque material, such as magnolias, 
azaleas, and other flowering things such 
as perennials, or bulbs, can be made ef¬ 
fective by arranging them in different 
opens according to color or season of 
bloom. In this manner a series of little 
gardens may be secured, each of which 
has its own individual character, and 
while it is a unit in itself, it is a part of 
the whole garden scheme. 
These are a few of the methods of 
utilizing uneven topography, and they 
may serve as types of gardens which will 
cover the average existing conditions. 
Their application will do much to make 
the country a garden spot, and each 
garden in it an individual point, express¬ 
ing the spirit of the ground upon which it 
is built, and its environment. 
Pages from a Decorator’s Diary 
{Continuedfrom page 74) 
one of those dignified old houses on 
Gramercy Park last spring and while 
she was abroad John Oakman, the archi¬ 
tect, rebuilt it for her. He built in a 
marvelous old French room, among other 
things, and had Ralph Flint, who is both 
painter and critic, restore the room. 
While working in the house Mr. Flint 
conceived the happy idea of making a 
balustrade of heavy black cords strung 
in a classic design, with the effect of the 
most delicate old ironwork. When I 
saw the hall my eye leapt at once to the 
extraordinary fine ironwork, and I was 
astonished to discover its artifice. Of 
course there will eventually be a real 
iron balustrade, but this makeshift is 
extremely effective . .. Mrs. Chauncey 01 - 
cott has one of those sweet houses on 
Sutton Place that look out over that tran¬ 
quil community garden and the moving 
pageant of the East River. Mrs. Olcott 
has made a guest flat of her top floor, 
consisting of bedroom, drawing room, 
bath, and kitchenette. The kitchenette 
with its equipment for afternoon tea, or 
morning coffee, makes the guest com¬ 
pletely happy, because she doesn’t have 
to ask for anything. Also when the house 
is closed during the summer, Mrs. Olcott 
can use the guest floor as a place to live 
when she comes to town for a few days . . . 
Miss Anne Morgan, who has built a 
brand new Georgian house of red brick 
on the site of two of the old Sutton Place 
houses, is planning an early American 
drawing room 40 ' wide, and 30' deep, 
across the front of her house. There 
are hundreds of beautiful drawing rooms 
in New York, but I know of no one but 
Miss Morgan who has determined to 
make the largest and most important 
room in her house an early American 
one. She is using an old pine paneled 
room, such as were often seen in old 
Southern houses. The New England pine 
rooms were usually much smaller and 
the paneling was generally more severe. 
In the Regency of King Coal 
{Continuedfrom page 61) 
two weeks more water must be added to 
the radiator—and this is all the effort 
attached to it. 
This obviates “piping” a house. The 
air is not dry but healthfully moist. In 
fact, the humidifying aspect of this heat¬ 
ing agent is a large factor in its favor with 
us; for more and more are heating experts 
realizing the necessity of the humidifying 
element in health protection. 
Here there is no fuel storage necessary, 
no oil tanks, no coal bins, and pretty 
nearly 100% of the heat is delivered in the 
cold room without “byway” waste. 
The only thing against it is having to 
get up in the morning and light it! But, 
of course, you do away with the janitor, 
an item these days! However, there is no 
more effort in lighting this radiator than 
turning on the radiator of the usual type. 
Then there are the old familiar radiant 
gas heaters, which adorn our “bogus” fire¬ 
places. Some are constructed of polished 
sheet brass and use clay mantel burners. 
These heaters should be attached to flues 
wherever possible. The minute the gas is 
lighted the plastic clay mantel becomes 
luminous and heat is radiated throughout 
the room. 
Another and excellent type of gas radi¬ 
ating heat is one which forces up air and 
gas from beneath (through a screen). This 
is ignited and heats by indirect heat, 
through pounds and pounds of iron! Di¬ 
rect heat is odorful and often gas laden, 
indirect heat is odorless and safe. Carbon 
monoxide is often given off in gas heaters 
where the burning of gas is imperfect. 
In one of the very best ones, tests have 
been made and the quantity of this gas 
is nil, also the carbon dioxide was in 
very little evidence after many hours of 
burning with people in the room! 
Such a fireplace burner or space burner 
is of real value. In a small apartment one 
can heat pretty nearly the whole area, as 
the hot air is projected with sufficient 
force to produce an intense heat. 
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Brick and Cement Coating 
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