HOUSE AND GARDEN 
461 
June, 1914 
Seals of white-painted wood come in a variety of designs 
and may be disposed in nearly every garden 
If architectural furniture is used, it must be appropriate to 
the house. Many forms are to be had in good taste 
terberry, buckthorn or Osage orange, and the 
cost and danger of transplanting any of these 
when fully grown is great. The same is true 
of shrubbery screens of lilac, svringa, for- 
sythia, hibiscus, viburnum, euonymous, hy¬ 
drangea, and the like. 
Immediate and equally satisfactory effects 
may be had by the use of walls or lattice 
fences combined with flower borders and 
climbing or creeping vines. Such a scheme 
is architectural in treatment—tied to the house, so to speak— 
and thus even more in accord with the living-room spirit. The 
garden treatment of the 
living-room will naturally 
be more formal than the 
remainder of the grounds, 
and fences and walls have 
long been employed as a 
mark of transition to 
separate two or more por¬ 
tions of the grounds 
treated in dissimilar man¬ 
ner. Indeed, fences and 
walls are important ad¬ 
juncts, not alone utili¬ 
tarian, but lending beauty 
and distinction to home 
grounds when the ma¬ 
terials and construction 
are such as will give char¬ 
acter to them.. To real¬ 
ize this one has only to 
see the dignified, white- 
painted wood fences of 
Salem, or the charming 
brick walls of Charleston 
half clad with clinging 
vines, softened by many 
years of sun and storm, 
as well as the shadows of 
overhanging, m o s s-f e s- 
tooned live oaks traced 
upon them. 
The wall or fence im¬ 
mediately becomes a back¬ 
ground for the decora¬ 
tion of the outdoor living-room. Vines may be grown upon a 
wall or unpainted fence — even upon a painted fence if the 
The sundial is best a central point in the 
garden. It should be along some axis of 
path or gateway 
There are many spaces where a garden terrace may be used in America. Where a porch is 
not architecturally suitable it may be placed adjoining a house and shaded by foliage. 
Various suitable furniture of iron and durable wood is used here 
annual or perennial varieties whose tops die 
every autumn are chosen. The green fo¬ 
liate and evergreen climbers are best inter¬ 
spersed with flowering varieties, and if the 
latter comprise many annuals a varied effect 
may be had from season to season. 
Flower, shrub or hardy borders, favorite 
varieties, are the rule in beds two or three 
feet wide inside the wall. By placing the tall 
varieties at the back near the fence or wall and 
the lower ones in front, a well-balanced appearance results, and 
sufficient decoration to relieve the nakedness of a white-painted 
fence may easily be had 
without resort to vines. 
Permanent architectural 
ornaments and garden 
furniture add to the gen¬ 
eral gardening scheme a 
sense of individuality, a 
keynote of temperament 
a n d appreciative good 
taste. Of the permanent 
architectural features of a 
garden living-room, the 
gateways, benches, a pool 
or fountain, sundial or 
gazing globe, arbors, and 
possibly a garden house 
or pergola, are most com¬ 
mon and best. They cor¬ 
respond in a measure to 
the windows, doors, fire¬ 
places and other built-in 
features of an indoor 
room, and are ranged 
about to form a well-bal¬ 
anced composition, care 
being taken to locate the 
more important ones 
along the axis of the 
house, and all of them 
at points to which the eye 
is led from the proper 
viewpoint by paths laid 
out in geometrical pat¬ 
terns among the flower¬ 
beds or grass plots. The disposition of these units is important. 
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