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House & Garden 
A Garden that Smiles 
All Summer Long 
M idsummer usually finds the gar¬ 
den almost destitute of color, unless 
special plans have been made to tide 
over this time of dullness. 
Years ago Hicks Nurseries adopted the 
motto of “Planting all the time to save 
time.” We know that you do not want to 
wait several months for things to grow, so 
we inaugurated 
Hicks Plantateria 
where you can find perennials and annuals, 
roses and vines, growing in pots; these can 
be carried away to brighten with gay colors 
the dull spots in your garden. Some plants 
are grown in clumps that can be lifted easily 
and transplanted without danger of loss. 
This new Hicks plan, and the available 
plants, is explained on page 47 of 
Home Landscapes 
A new book just revised by Mr. Henry Hicks. It 
covers the broad subject of trees, shrubs, hardy 
plants and fruits, in a fascinating fashion. Several 
paintings by Miss Amy Cross and Walt Huber add 
to the artistic value of this new edition. A copy 
will be mailed on request. 
HICKS NURSERIES 
Box H, Westbury, Long Island, New York 
The picturesque garden house of the H. Gregg 
Danby alteration, seen from the rear. Its loca¬ 
tion can he found on the plan on page 59 
NEW HOUSES EOR OLD 
(Continued from page 61) 
of the qualities most to be desired in 
an alteration. 
The architect’s own house is seen 
from the small snapshots to have been a 
ruinous affair, of bleak exterior and 
strange profile. The unimaginative 
mind might well have found it impos¬ 
sible to visualize a sane and comfort¬ 
able looking house from such an un¬ 
compromising point of departure. 
The curious broken gable, however, 
was not obliterated, but preserved in 
the remodeling. The box-like protu¬ 
berance in the first snapshot was given 
a gable end of its own and conv'erted 
into the service wing, and the original 
main entrance is still the main entrance 
of the new house. To the right of the 
service w'ing, and partly hidden, in the 
picture, by a tree, can be seen the un¬ 
changed profile of the tall broken gable. 
Vines and planting have overcome the 
stark bleakness of the original house 
and made it into a country dwelling of 
real charm and domesticity. Of the 
plan of the main portion little remains 
in its original form but the arrrange- 
ment of the window's. 
The third alteration is of the trans¬ 
formation type, though little of archi¬ 
tectural elaboration is apparent in the 
finished building. Much has been done 
in the way of architectural treatment 
of the site, and the rear has been 
turned from an appearance of actual 
squalor to one of livable attractive¬ 
ness. 
If one can imagine inspecting the 
original house, perhaps on a gray and 
chill day, it must be admitted that not 
only imagination but courage w’ere nec¬ 
essary to embark upon the work of 
architectural salvage. Nothing, in this 
case, was added to the area of the plan, 
w'hich makes it an unusually helpful 
example of w'hat can be done with a 
forlorn old house, and at no excessive 
cost. 
I do not think that architects have 
ever received their proper tribute of 
appreciation for this kind of work, for 
it has a sociological as well as an archi¬ 
tectural aspect, in the era in which we 
are now living. Increased expenditure 
in living costs in many directions means 
enforced curtailment in others. Con¬ 
servation is one of the first principles of 
economy, domestic or national, and the 
skillful remodeling of otherwise useless 
dwellings represents a definite form of 
conservation, although it brings com¬ 
paratively little attention to the archi¬ 
tect w'hose patience and ingenuity gives 
us new houses for old. 
The garden house seen from the sloping meadow. This 
illustration shows the extent to which the original house 
was remodeled for Mr. Danby 
