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House 0° Garden 
Plumbing 
Fore¬ 
thought 
W HAT adds more distinction to a 
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THE DOMESTIC CHAPEL 
{Continued from page 114 ) 
chapel, spacious enough to hold a small 
congregation. Detached from the house, 
and a short distance away from it in the 
garden, it serves the needs not only of 
the family with their servants but also 
has room enough within its walls for the 
neighbors, who live far from a church. 
Still a third type is the chapel of 
Doughoregan Manor, the home of the 
Carroll Family, in Howard County, Md. 
The house is of Georgian design and the 
projecting chapel wing balances a wing of 
the house. This is said to be the oldest 
domestic chapel in America; it has been 
used as a place of family worship for over 
two hundred years. 
Although the domestic chapel was a 
well recognized part of most of the large 
houses in England and France, in Italy 
it was an invariable accompaniment. 
Each villa had its chapel, either within 
the master’s dwelling itself, or else near 
by, and was intended for the use of all the 
people on the estate as well as for the 
immediate family and household servants. 
When it was in the master’s house it 
generally had a separate outside entrance 
as well as access from within. It was all 
a part of the patriarchal system which 
continues in force today where the villas 
have remained in the hands of their old 
Italian owners who maintain all the 
ancient traditions and have a kindly 
feeling of responsibility towards their 
servants and dependants. 
The interior fittings of the domestic 
chapel will depend wholly on the inclina¬ 
tions of its owners, but before quitting 
the subject there are two considerations to 
bear in mind. First, remember that the 
chapel is, or ought to be, a truly demo¬ 
cratic place where all meet on an equal 
footing. Its appointment, therefore, 
ought to have a dignified simplicity. 
Second, the chapel is a place to embellish 
by gradual degrees with such bits of 
ecclesiastical art and objects of beauty 
as we may like to acquire from time to 
time. Such things, if not absolutely 
inappropriate in other places where they 
are often seen, nevertheless lose much of 
their value when divorced from their 
proper environment. In the domestic 
chapel their beautj' is enhanced tenfold. 
ON HOUSE GARDEN’S BOOK SHELF 
{Continued from page 126 ) 
full-page illustrations in black and white, 
some of the latter exhibiting each several 
varieties. In the aid he had in producing 
these pictures the author was very 
fortunate and the publishers have co¬ 
operated handsomely in reproducing 
them. The lack of some familiar object 
in the picture with which to compare the 
size of the specimen is not so greatly 
missed, of course, as it is in garden books 
which deal with subjects varying more in 
magnitude. A more regrettable lack is 
the absence of all reference to fragrance 
or odors. The colors of the flowers are in 
most cases set forth clearly; in some cases 
less happily. This omission is most 
provoking in the case of Foster’s variety, 
which is said to be one of the most 
beautiful primulas in cultivation. 
Frank Myer 
T he Glory of the Garden. By M. G. 
Kennedy-Bell, F.R.H.S. The Mac¬ 
millan Company. 
With the grace and courtliness that so 
distinguish the English professional man 
of classical training the author of this 
splendid little volume helps one to see 
that the glory of the garden “can never 
pass away’’ and why that is true. He 
tells, enthusiastically and eloquently, how 
large is the place occupied in myth and 
legend by trees and herbs and all kinds 
of flowers. An almost lyrical strain is 
reached in the chapter given to Bee Lore. 
Scarcely less delightful is the language 
used in descanting upon Tree Lore. But 
in this chapter one wonders why there is 
no reference to Norse and Teutonic 
stories about trees, as one wonders in the 
special treatment, in a separate chapter, 
of Fir and Pine Trees, that the references 
are so brief. A yet greater wonder is 
that in his chapter on Trees the author 
could name Thoreau “the great French 
scientist’’. But he makes very intelligent 
use of Whittier and Emerson. 
One chapter makes particularly inter¬ 
esting reading in these days when so little 
attention is given, in gardens and 
thoughts about gardens, to its subject, 
that of Herbs and Their Origin. A para¬ 
graph, and even two, are worth quoting 
for gardeners in general and for landscape 
architects and town planners. “Modern 
research has proved that our forefathers 
were quite right in their cultivation of 
flowers and plants for scent; they were 
not merely luxuriously delighting their 
senses, as science has now disclosed to us 
that ozone is developed when the sun 
shines on most kinds of fragrant plants, 
such as fir and pine trees, scented flowers, 
and sweet herbs generally.’’ “John 
Evelyn, that wise and famous gardener of 
old, had very ambitious ideas, as he 
soberly and solemnly proposed to make 
London the healthiest as well as the 
happiest city in the world, by surrounding 
it with plots and hedgerows of sweetbriar, 
jasmine, lilies, rosemary, lavender, musk, 
and marjoram.’’ 
F. M. 
P LANT Names. By T. S. Lindsay, B.D, 
The Macmillan Company. 
In this tidy little volume the scholarly 
Archdean of Dublin begins by disclaiming 
intention of writing for the learned and 
he makes no pretension to exhaustiveness. 
He makes clear that in botany and horti¬ 
culture exactness of nomenclature is as 
important as in other sciences and arts 
and that this helps to make plants and 
flowers more interesting and instructive 
by giving an understanding of the mean¬ 
ings of their names. Particularly in these 
modern times, when Greek and Latin are 
familiar to comparative’}' few people, is 
there value in such a list of specific names 
as is found upon pages 79-86, where, in 
alphabetical order, are explained terms 
like fruticosus, hispidus, sarmentosus and 
villosus, to quote a few at random. The 
average reader of the average nursery¬ 
man’s catalogue might well heave a sigh 
of relief if upon beginning his perusal he 
should find prefixed such a vocabulary. 
Attention to it might better have been 
directed in the Index, for most readers will 
naturally turn to it without reading 
through the entire body of the work, 
though its stories are more entertaining 
than those of the dictionary, in spite of 
their being so short. 
Stories are told, some of which are 
given too much credence, and which in¬ 
volve the author in hysteron proteron. 
The laurel tree was certainly not named 
from a Greek maiden Daphne; the legend 
doubtlessly sprang from the imaginative 
mind of some ancient Hellene while he 
watched the play of the sunbeams upon 
the foliage of the tree that had received 
its name long before. Those philologists 
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