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House & Garden 
H eirlooms perpetuate family 
traditions. They become 
more valued with use, just as the 
antiques of our forefathers grew 
more beautiful with age. That is the 
real test of good furniture; to become 
better enjoyed the longer you have it. 
Berkey & Gay furniture serves one 
generation after another, losing 
none of its utility and growing more 
treasured with the passing years. 
Write us for name of nearest dealer. 
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illustrations, sent upon request. 
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BERKEY & GAY FURNITURE CO. 
446 Monroe Avenu'e, Grand Rapids.‘Mich. 
New York City Office, 119 West 40th Street 
.4 naturalistic pool 
on the place of J. 
F. Carlisle, Esq., 
at I slip, L. 1. 
Romantic Gardening 
(Continued from page SO) 
sign need only to be maintained and 
cared for. But one must grow up with 
the romantic type, for time alone can 
bring about the magic of luxuriance and 
growth that so stirs one’s emotions. 
And yet this very exuberance needs to 
be curbed and controlled. It is apt to 
break out into all sorts of wild pranks 
and mischievous riotings, so one must 
guide it aright by frequently consulting 
the original plans, that it may not be¬ 
come lost in a maze of its own making. 
The art of transplanting large trees 
and shrubs that a garden may appear 
in the venerable garb of old age in a 
comparatively short number of years, 
is being very successfully achieved. 
Skillful tree-movers confidently take 
great trees from their beds in the forest 
and set them either singly as sentinels 
before the entrance of a new home, or 
mass them in effective groups to secure 
a beautiful sky-line or to act as a 
frame or protection for a house and 
garden. It is, of course, an expensive 
operation, but is thoroughly justified 
when the owner has reached those years 
when he wishes to get the full benefit 
of a garden perfected in his lifetime. 
Such a garden is Mr. Francis E. 
Drury’s of Cleveland, Ohio. His ap¬ 
preciation and taste for all things beau¬ 
tiful has found a form of expression in 
this exquisite setting for his favorite 
flowers and plants. Its general scheme 
is romantic in conception, but there is 
included in it a small formal garden 
where flowers and shrubs are arranged 
and grown to their best advantage. The 
garden is limited in area, but so cun¬ 
ningly is it devised, that meandering 
walks and alluring paths lead one on 
and on until one feels great distances 
have been traversed. Sweeping lawns 
also give the impression of vast spaces. 
The illusion is further enhanced by the 
introduction of pools of water that give 
the landscape architect the opportunity 
for displaying his best efforts in imagi¬ 
native design. Here the planting is 
entirely romantic and one feels the in¬ 
timacy and seclusion of remote woods 
where laurel, rhododendron and other 
plants have made themselves thoroughly 
at home, forgetting that these are not 
their native haunts. 
And then when one is tired and 
thirsty, quite unexpectedly one comes 
upon a little tea-house nestling among 
the trees. It is Tudoresque and pic¬ 
turesque in style and has quite caught 
the spirit of the place in its charm and 
simplicity. 
Illustrated here are glimpses of other 
gardens, as well, revealing the art of 
romantic planting that has transformed 
perfectly flat, barren spaces into a won¬ 
derland of beauty. It is not wholly 
the hand of Nature nor the conscious 
skill of man that has created this per¬ 
fection, but the congenial working to¬ 
gether of the two—the exuberance of 
growth that Nature, when given a 
proper chance, so liberally dispenses, 
and the knowledge of balance and or¬ 
der that man possesses. 
Do You Neglect the Ceiling? 
(Continued from page 42) 
ferred, bosses or similar small molded 
details may be of plaster, but the applied 
ribbing had better be of wood. Unless 
the plaster surface be exceptionally good 
and free of cracks, before doing any¬ 
thing else it would be well to cover the 
ceiling with decorator’s canvas or muslin, 
which has been previously treated with 
a filler, and can easily be painted the 
desired color. Then upon this ground 
apply the ribbing. 
(2) Flat decoration may be made 
with (a) color applied directly; (b) 
of texture imparted by paper or by a 
textile; (c) by a design executed upon 
paper or upon a textile and then put 
in place. Such flat decoration, of 
course, may be used either by itself or 
in combination with relief decoration. 
The average fear of color is one of 
the greatest obstacles to be overcome 
in achieving decorative success. This 
bogey once set aside the way becomes 
easier. The simplest form of color re¬ 
lief is to use some single appropriate 
color which will enhance the harmony. 
Unless the element of pattern is also 
introduced, however, the decoration will 
be very tame indeed. 
The Ceiling a Sky 
(a) One method of ceiling decora¬ 
tion that originated with the ancient 
continued through the Middle Ages and 
the Renaissance and has found its in¬ 
terpreters in our own day, was to de¬ 
pict the sun, moon and constellations on 
a blue ground, introducing the symbolic 
impersonations and, perhaps, also the 
signs of the zodiac. From the descrip¬ 
tion this to some might seem gaudy. 
As a matter of fact it is not. The gold 
of the stars can be dulled. The ceru¬ 
lean or gray cerulean blue background 
makes an admirable foil, properties of 
which the old fresco and other painters 
were fully aware and which we should 
do well to remember. If one seeks 
verification of this statement they need 
only look at the sky. Being a receding 
color it does not thrust down the ceil¬ 
ing upon the heads of those in the 
room. Such a scheme of decoration 
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