HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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a neighbor’s meadow. Cutting out a few 
intruding bushes in the old paths improved 
them greatly, and newly made paths now 
lead from the pool through the region 
where the great masses of Maidenhair and 
interrupted fern luxuriate under the rocks 
on the north side of the hill, to the spring 
and the great grape-vine near the fence. 
The Spice-bush is so beautiful a shrub 
that it should be more largely used. In 
early spring its gray twigs and branches 
cover themselves with a yellow haze of 
blossoms, followed by glossy dark green 
leaves and berries which turn to bright 
scarlet. The whole bush, bark, leaves and 
berries is pungent with a spicy odor. A 
long path bordered with them is very at¬ 
tractive, and it would seem as if they 
might serve a useful purpose in planting, 
especially as they grow well under the 
edge of a tree plantation. 
One of the great pleasures in taking 
possession of a place like this is the con¬ 
tinual succession of discoveries which 
may be made; the Laurel on the hillside, 
a Fir or Larch, which has seeded in from 
a neighboring “place,” or the fact that the 
Columbines on the cliff are connected with 
those we know down near the bars by a 
straggling ragged ribbon of others all 
down the rugged hillside, where we never 
go except when our sluggish Sunday blood 
needs a little stirring. 
The little Beech tree discovered down 
near the path may be our pride some day 
if we will give it room and sun, and the 
little White Pine, which looks so well in 
spring, that we call it a treasure as it 
shows fresh and green against the gray of 
the edge of the woods, must be attended 
to, if we do not wish it smothered by the 
brush that makes its location a question in 
summer. 
Working in these ways, we hope to 
make the labor of a few spare hours or 
leisure days with these humble tools, de¬ 
velop into greater unity and effectiveness 
the beauties which nature has so freely 
given and add to the financial value more 
than enough to offset the little time taken 
from the labors of the farm and orchard. 
Porch Pillows 
(Continued from page 29.) 
so thin as to require lining. Oriental cot¬ 
ton stuffs, with Batik decoration, are in¬ 
teresting and inexpensive, but difficult to 
procure, as Turkish or Armenian dealers 
prefer to import embroidered shirt waists 
rather than the more artistic products of 
their countrymen. Russian crash is suit¬ 
able for outdoor use, and decorations in 
stencil are appropriate, applied with a 
home-made or Japanese stencil. Crash 
toweling in blue or red and white squares, 
is sometimes used for covers, with blue or 
red embroidery covering some of the 
squares, and used to tack the narrow 
strips together. Another material bor¬ 
rowed from the culinary department of 
the house is the German dish-cloth. Of 
heavy hand-woven cotton, creamy in color, 
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