HOUSE AND GARDEN 
472 
June, 1911 
Your own Cottage at the 
Seaside or Mountains 
T HE matter of expense need not stand in the 
way of your having a real vacation in the hills 
or at the seashore. Hodgson Cottages solve 
the problem. If you do not know all about how 
we have combined home comfort and attractiveness 
with true economy in 
HODGSON 
Portable Houses 
it will be worth your while to look over our beautiful 1911 catalog. 
We have widened out in our twelve years of portable cottage 
building. You will be sure to find something in the long line of 
Hodgson Portable Cottages, Lodges, Bungalows, Retreats and 
Seaside and Mountain “ Summer Homes,” that will meet your 
requirements. Well-designed Porches, Verandas, Sun Parlors etc. 
Cottages, one room to as many as wanted. Inexpensive G .tages 
for one or more cars — all of substantial character. We build to 
withstand the severest storms. We will be glad to mail you catalog 
on request. 
E. F. HODGSON CO., 104 Adams Square, Boston, Mass. 
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this lead-colored putty. This has remained 
intact through winter storms. 
Upstairs there are four bedrooms and a 
bath. The guest room has a dormer win¬ 
dow with window-seat which lifts up, mak¬ 
ing a cupboard underneath. As there was 
no place in this room for a bureau or even 
a dressing-table, one had to be devised. A 
bureau would have blocked out a small side 
window, so the wall was pushed out over 
the stairs and a shrine-like recess serves 
the purpose of a dressing-table. A mirror 
hangs above, and little lockers take the 
place of drawers. These, with the win¬ 
dow-settle and shelves under the sloping 
roof, give to a small room many places for 
stowing away things. The hall leads back 
into the addition—to bath and bedroom, 
and is lined with sheathing stained a gray- 
green. On one side a jointed door, held in 
place by a wooden button, makes it easy to 
get to the tank. 
The comfortable bedroom in the addition 
has two little dormers, and one large end 
window, from which the ocean can be seen. 
There are two more bedrooms on this floor, 
one of which has a good-sized dormer win¬ 
dow, so although the house is really a small 
one, it can accommodate a goodly company 
with utmost comfort—eight people, not in¬ 
cluding the servant! 
Outdoors the three acres have for the 
most part been laid out in an orchard— 
apples and pears, and a few peaches, the 
vegetable garden, and a lawn on one side. 
This ends in a hidden garden. At present 
it is not on display, as it is only in the pro¬ 
cess of making, but there are always pos¬ 
sibilities and there is joy in attempting to 
realize them. The ramshackle fence, 
which was falling to pieces and would have 
been expensive to patch and renew, is re¬ 
placed by a privet hedge which thrives. 
This borders the hidden garden, with its 
two althea trees at the opening, which are 
being trained into an arch. Near by are 
two little weeping willows, and within the 
enclosure are hollyhocks, larkspur and 
phlox, reduplicating, perhaps, those that 
grew there long ago. 
Two old cherry trees, outside of the 
hedge by the roadside, instead of being 
chopped down, are used as supports to a 
thriving wistaria, which has almost cov¬ 
ered them. Beside the house a group of 
three poplars have been planted and 
throughout the grounds each bare spot is 
growing some tree, shrub, flower or grass 
to add beauty to the setting. 
Behind the house is a small, well-built 
barn, used as a storehouse, and beyond is 
the chicken-house and yard. Between the 
house and barn is the kitchen garden, 
screened by a grape-vine from the road, 
and surrounded on the other sides by hon¬ 
eysuckle. 
So, in six years, a little bare, unprepos¬ 
sessing house, in a barren, weed-tangled, 
treeless tract, has been converted into a 
cheerful, tasteful country home, sur¬ 
rounded by garden and orchard and 
shaded by all sorts of growing things 
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