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Space and Arrangement in Furnishing 
PLANT THIS 
SPRING SURE 
And place your order at the 
earliest possible moment. A 
serious shortage of nursery 
stock exists throughout the 
United States, there being less 
than one-third of a normal 
supply. 
You will surely be disap¬ 
pointed if purehasing is de¬ 
layed—Our 'bookings for 
spring already exeeed fifty 
pereent of our total estimated 
volume of spring business; 
this is unpreeedented. 
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AND VINES, 
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HEDGE PLANTS 
Our Catalogue 
of “DEPENDABLE TREES AND PLANTS;" 
fully illustrated in color, giving comflcte descrip- 
t i 0 n of G L E N - 
WOOD NURSERY 
Trees and Plants, 
ifitli _ directions for 
planting, is ^ now 
ready for distribu¬ 
tion. IVe shall be 
glad to send you a 
copy upon receipt of 
your request. 
GLEN BROS., Inc. 
Established 1866 
Glenwood Nursery Rochester, N. Y., U. S. A. 
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Strawberries from Spring to Fall 
Think of it. Big, luscious strawberries on your 
table from June ’til October. Our Everbearing and 
spring varieties make this possible. And from a 
commercial standpoint berries will pay more than 
any other crop you can grow. 
Our Catalog Tells How 
many men are making $700 an acre net. or more, by 
planting our strawberry, raspberry and other small fruit 
plants. But remember, KNIGHT’S FRUIT PLANTS are 
the first step toward success. Write for catalog today— 
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DAVID KNIGHT & SON, Box 81, Sawyer, Mich. 
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be used to the best advantage as a 
means of getting about, for clear floor 
space is at a premium. In a small room 
the groups of furniture must be formed 
against the unbroken walls and between 
the windows and doors. A book case, 
for instance, may occupy a place against 
the middle of a wall where it can be 
flanked by chairs. Between windows 
there is perhaps a bit of solid wall 
some few feet across. A large pic¬ 
ture, a piece of tapestry or other hang¬ 
ing may well be placed there, tying 
the windows together and forming the 
principal point of interest on that side 
of the room. A table or a large chair 
placed against this bit of wall will link 
itself with this treatment of the space 
and the whole side of the room will 
acquire dignity and repose through this 
establishment of orderly relations. 
Around the Fire 
If there is a fireplace an easy chair 
may be placed facing it at the front 
or at one side. Another chair can be 
brought from its place against the wall 
on occasion. There is usually no space 
for a permanent group of furniture in 
front of the fireplace in a small room. 
Though there may be no floor space 
to spare in a small room, it is seldom 
well to leave the center of the floor 
empty, it tends to make the room seem 
like ai box with furniture solemnly 
backed up against the walls. A table 
of moderate size in the center of the 
room does not interfere with the circu¬ 
lation of people about the room, if a 
clear passage of sufficient width is left 
on all four sides of it. 
It is a mistake to put unusually small 
furniture in a small room with the idea 
of making the room look larger, for 
small furniture tends to make a room 
seem like a dolls’ house. It is best 
to use furniture of moderate size and, 
perhaps, a few pieces that are rather 
larger than the average may be used. 
A small room naturally cannot be made 
to seem spacious, but it can be given 
dignity and an air of comfort if it is 
furnished with good, easy, substantial- 
looking pieces and not over-crowded. 
The Key to the Problem 
The group idea, if developed both 
with a view to convenience and to the 
creation of a good composition, is the 
key to the problem of arrangement. 
This fact is appreciated by the modern 
producers of plays. The stage with its 
great floor space must often be made to 
represent a well-furnished interior. Its 
expanse must be broken up by the fur¬ 
niture. It presents the same problem 
as a large room, but in an exaggerated 
form. Grouping the furniture is the 
means usually adopted and the effec¬ 
tiveness of this method is shown in a 
striking manner by the success with 
which an air of comfort is given to 
these big barren spaces. Then, too, the 
furniture groups serve another and no 
less important purpose both on the stage 
and in the home—they provide the set¬ 
ting for the action in both instances. 
It is not possible to live comfor¬ 
tably in a room arranged in conformity 
to an arbitrary scheme laid out with 
an eye only for symmetry and balance. 
The use of the room must be taken into 
consideration, and it is much better to 
start with the practical requirements 
in mind working out an arrangement 
that will meet these requirements and 
at the same time produce a pleasing 
effect. 
'When people live in rooms they move 
the furniture about to suit their con¬ 
venience. In this way many a room 
that was arranged in a cut-and-dried 
fashion becomes livable. Through use 
the human element enters, giving it life 
and character. 
There should be a definite relation 
between the placing of the furniture 
and the permanent features on the walls 
of the room such as the fireplace, win¬ 
dows and wall panels. If the furniture 
groups are not centered on the axis of 
the room placed in the center of the 
panels against which they are seen or 
otherwise adjusted to the divisions of 
the room, the sense of unity which 
should be felt between the furniture and 
the architectural features of the room 
will be lacking. 
The Value of Balance 
In forming groups of furniture it 
is well to remember the following facts: 
Similar pieces of furniture may be placed 
at either side of an architectural fea¬ 
ture of the room, forming in a sense 
appendages to it; for instance, chairs 
or settees on either side of a fireplace. 
Small pieces of furniture may be 
brought into the same relation with a 
large piece of furniture, as small stands 
flanking a sofa. Small pieces of fur¬ 
niture such as stands may be tied to¬ 
gether by being placed against a large 
piece such as a sofa. 
Two pieces of furniture of equal im¬ 
portance when placed side by side do 
not form a good group because each 
asserts its individuality. Furniture 
placed against or close to a wall be¬ 
comes, to a degree, part of the wall 
scheme and the wall back of such fur¬ 
niture pieces tends to bind them to¬ 
gether. This idea is exemplified in 
the treatment of bedrooms, where a 
canopy or drapery is attached to the 
wall at the head of the bed to bring 
this piece of furniture in the closest 
possible relation to the wall. The rea¬ 
son for the use of this canopy or drap¬ 
ery is found in the fact that the large 
low bulk of a bed projects away from 
the wall into the room and the need 
of something to tie it to the wall is 
felt with special force. It is this desire 
to unite the bed with the wall treat¬ 
ment that leads frequently to the placing 
of the beds with one side against the 
wall, with a drapery on the wall above. 
Bedrooms 
In the arrangement of a bedroom the 
bed usually dominates the scheme. 
Small stands and chairs at either side 
fall naturally into their subordinate re¬ 
lation; a settee, a large chair, a bench 
or a writing table placed at the foot 
of the bed becomes an appendage to the 
bed. 
In the dining room there is seldom 
opportunity to depart from the general 
scheme of a table in the center with 
chairs around it and other furniture 
against the walls, but the grouping of 
the furniture along the walls should be 
worked out to secure a proper relation 
with the wall treatment. 
