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House Garden 
The Charm of 
The beautiful Atlantic 
Taper Twist _ Candle 
shewn here is espe¬ 
cially adapted to the 
more formal decora¬ 
tive uses. 
Candles and Candle-light 
W ELL-CHOSEN candles in the reception 
hall—how stately they look! How they 
radiate the very warmth of your hospitality! 
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and candle-light into every room—living-room, 
dining-room, library, boudoir. Nothing has a 
more important part in the decorative appoint¬ 
ments of the modern home, nor better expresses 
the good taste of the home-maker. 
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quently. Burn them. Atlantic Candles are 
made for lighting as well as decorative qualities. 
Each style is a masterpiece of the candle-maker’s 
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terials pure, wicks self-consuming. No smoke! 
No odor! No flicker! No drip! 
Atlantic means quality. So for your protection 
Atlantic Candles, or their boxes, are distinctly 
labeled. Dealers have them in many desirable 
shapes and colors. 
“CANDLE GLOW,” an interesting and 
authoritative booklet prepared by ns, offers 
many suggestions on candle styles, lighting and 
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Owe of the great charms of a fragrant garden laid out along 
such lines as these is the opportunity its paths afford for 
wandering at will and enjoying to the full the successive scents 
from the different plant groups 
THE GARDEN OF SWEET PERFUMES 
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parterre of European gardens half as 
readily as the happy patterns of boxwood 
bordering gardens like that at Mount 
Vernon, or the curiously interwoven 
knots and rings found here and there in 
forgotten countrysides in front of the less 
pretentious white houses belonging to our 
early republican grandparents. For me, I 
think of the charming old gardens where 
great square beds of vegetables and herbs 
and flowers are bordered with billowy box 
edgings, and fruit trees grow carelessly in 
the midst of all, lending their own pecu¬ 
liar signifleant fragrance to the garden. 
Two such gardens come to mind. One is a 
really old garden back of the fine old 
Reade mansion in the half-forgotten and 
altogether charming town of Newcastle, 
Delaware. In the other, on a rich estate 
on Long Island, the great beds with their 
boxwood borders lend a fragrant dignity 
and aged charm to a great walled flower 
garden but a few years old. I saw it one 
hlay morning in all its loveliness when 
pink dogwoods, wistarias and lilacs were 
all in bloom together. 
The sweetness of the Paulownia tree is 
inseparably mingled with spacious lawns 
on old estates and even the common 
barberry has a sweetness w'hen in flower 
that conjures up these older places with 
all the old-fashioned elegance of fifty 
years ago. 
Quite different but perhaps just as al¬ 
luring are the pictures brought up by the 
fragrance of sweet brier roses, pictures full 
of the charm of unpretentious gardens of 
earlier days. Can you not see the white 
arched gateways, the trellised seats and 
arbors, the curious curving paths and 
tangled borders? Lilacs and orange- 
scented syringas grew in these gardens; 
the cinnamon rose grew there; the sweet- 
scented “shrub” with its curious brown 
bouquet; and wistarias enveloped the 
house in a veritable bow'er of fragrance. 
Rose geranium and lemon verbena, 
valerian and heliotrope were set out in 
these gardens. 
These are intimate flowers, as their 
fragrance suggests. They like to be 
touched with sensitive fingers. They are 
caressing and weave their perfumed webs 
around our hearts. They like to be 
planted near at hand in the cosiness of 
little intimate gardens. No display or 
wealth need be there; a few plants of each 
are quite enough, for in their very elusive 
suggestiveness is their charm. 
And then, there are thyme and laven¬ 
der and sage w’hose refreshing smell re¬ 
calls English half-timbered cottages 
embowered in rose vines and nestling in 
the midst of fragrant shrubs. In front are 
tiny doorway gardens where matted 
plants are growing over gray stone paths; 
hollyhocks form rosetted ornaments 
against brick walls, and all manner of 
lovely t 3 'pically English flowers are 
gathered together in orderly charm. 
Shall we be satisfied by these asso¬ 
ciated garden memories or will this varied 
fragrance lead us to create new gardens 
that shall have all the witchery of the old? 
Fragrance, too, has a way of setting its 
stamp upon a garden. Such plants as 
heliotrope whose habits adapt them to 
our newer use of bedding plants can be 
used in this way. I like heliotrope in fra¬ 
grant masses amid scattered polyantha 
roses, or better still in heavy bands 
mingled with verbenas and violas and 
pachysandra amid groups of laurels in a 
garden of soft color and predominant 
green. Stock, too, might well set its mark 
upon a garden, not just mingled with 
other annuals in great borders, but all 
self-sufficient in fragrant bands of soft 
intermingled color in some secluded gar¬ 
den spot. Even more subtle, perhaps, 
w’^ould be the poignant interest given a 
great lawn under age-old trees by planting 
sweet scented vernal in the grass. When 
planted in the joints of broken stone paths 
where it is crushed under foot the vernal 
grass is bewitchinglj" sweet. 
Fragrance has an elusive way of antici¬ 
pating our impressions of a garden. A 
single Gardenia rose over an arch turns a 
fragrant key in the gate to the rose gar¬ 
den. A single pine or a balsam fir prepares 
the mind for secluded shady gardens 
where columbines and meadow rue, ferns 
and lilies dwell. The subtle scent of water- 
lilies is so penetrating that even a hun¬ 
dred feet or more away from the plant 
one begins to delight in the water garden 
in pond or pool or stream as yet unseen. 
Fragrance can be full of enchantment, 
too. It can lure one on to hidden pleas¬ 
ures. Brush past the sweet brier rose 
that half blocks the garden entrance. At 
your very touch the fragrance quickens 
your pulse and prepares j^ou for a garden 
of old flower favorites. Crush the thyme 
under foot and its fragrant magic may lure 
you into a secluded garden hidden mthin 
gray walls. Edge x’-our annual border with 
mignonette and the tangled riot of its 
bloom will be doubly refreshing. Circle 
your garden with lilacs and syringas and 
each, springtime will lure j'ou anew into 
its fragrant enclosures. It is in such ways, 
if we do it with discrimination, that fra¬ 
grance can become a veritable guide in 
the making of lovelj' gardens. 
