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With a background of a hedge or vine-cov¬ 
ered wall, the white painted garden 
benches are seen at their best 
Rustic furniture continues to hold its own in 
popular favor, but the wood is now freed 
from all excrescences 
designs and 
makes an effec¬ 
tive piece of porch 
furniture. 
In the way of 
floor covering for 
piazzas there are any number of rugs of cocoa fibre and prairie 
grass made for rough outdoor use. They come in sizes from three 
by six to nine by twelve feet, and in colors especially suitable — 
browns, greens, tans and reds, either in solid tones with contrast¬ 
ing borders or combinations of color in plain conventional pat¬ 
terns. Rather more ornate are some of the new rugs that show 
designs suggestive of Oriental carpets, the figures being on a 
much enlarged scale, while a rug that is decidedly Eastern in effect 
has a wide green border with tan center in which figures of ele¬ 
phants are woven in the same green as that of the border. A 
novelty this year is a hand-woven grass rug that is said to be won¬ 
derfully durable. It is half an inch thick and so heavy that it will 
1 i e perfectly 
ggl flat no matter 
how hard the 
wind ma y 
blow, which is 
a considera- 
That one can now buy such attractive rose- 
arbors as this is cause for rejoicing 
among garden enthusiasts 
tion for persons 
whose summer 
homes are at the 
seashore. The 
colors are solid 
green or tan with 
a narrow conventional design in black that forms a border, and 
the rugs may be had either round or rectangular in shape. Small 
hassocks that are always useful on a porch are made with cover¬ 
ings to match the rugs. 
Unless a house is wired for electricity the question of lighting 
the piazza is a more or less serious one, and lamps, or more 
probably candles, must be depended on to furnish the necessary 
illumination. There are of course lanterns in all sizes and shapes, 
from the old ship’s lantern of heavy glass in a brass frame, picked 
up at the nearest curiosity shop, to elaborate affairs in wrought 
iron or bronze, but pleasing and picturesque as they may be, lan¬ 
terns as a usual thing throw only a feeble light on their 
surroundings. 
For real 
service there 
is a candle- 
lamp, pur¬ 
porting to be 
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One type of porch chair is made in a com¬ 
bination of unstained wood and willow 
The porch sewing-table is another of the A large umbrella of brown cotton with a 
season’s offerings in outdoor furnishing stencil design shelters this garden table 
