T HE outdoor living-room is rapidly becoming as potent a 
factor in the charm of suburban and country living in 
America as it long has been in that of England. For several 
years past we have agreed with our English cousins that no house 
really constitutes a home without its garden secluded from the 
street, so that our realization of the beauties, comforts and bene¬ 
fits of spending as much time as possible in close proximity to 
that garden seems to be a natural and happy sequence. Not only 
"The terrace is the Englishman’s porch. It is usually a delightful part of the house. Here is an exceedingly fine example of a bricked terrace between the wings of a 
house and overlooking the garden. The garden pottery and the bay trees not only frame the terrace but from a distance become part of the architecture of the house. 
This garden room is equipped with durable furniture of the Windsor type and a French umbrella with lacquered iron table and chairs 
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