62 
House 
& Garden 
THE ART OF 
TEA IN A GARDEN 
Limoges tea set in delicate blue or 
green with a fine gold band. 
Twenty-one pieces in the set. ^^35 
For the tete-a-tete tea, this lit¬ 
tle table can be set on the 
ground between the chairs. The 
legs fold under when you press 
the lever at each end. It comes 
painted or in mahogany. 29" 
long and 12" inches high. $27 
Willow tea cart with removable 
glass tray top, 18" long and 21" 
high, $32.75. The muffin stand, 
38" high, $12.75. They come 
painted or enameled 
iMattie Edwanis Hewitt 
.4 qidet spot in a shadowy ar¬ 
bor is the ideal place for the 
garden tea—such as this in the 
garden of Mrs. F. M. White- 
house, at Manchester, Mass. 
It is furnished with painted iron 
pieces and a broad garden bench 
A W HOLE volume 
could be written on 
the nuances of drinking 
tea. 
There is the content¬ 
ment of tea in mid-winter, 
when one sits before a 
blazing fire and keeps the 
pot wann on the hob. 
There is the tea social, 
given in stately fashion, 
when many come, wearing 
their Sunday clothes, very 
stiff and formal, and one 
juggles tea dishes and tries 
to enjoy it. There is tea 
in the Russian manner, 
served from a samovar, 
drunk out of glasses, and 
accompanied by night-long 
conversation. There is tea 
on shipboard—that strong, 
black tea made by stew¬ 
ards who go down to the 
deep and served precari¬ 
ously when the long roll 
of the sea permits. There 
is also tea in a garden. 
Next to having a gar¬ 
den, is the joy of having 
tea in a garden. 
The ideal spot is the 
shadowy corner of an ar¬ 
bor looking out over close- 
cropped lawns and up the 
can}'on of a path between 
towering l>lossoms. Here 
is quiet and tlie faint per¬ 
fume of flowers. A bird 
calls. Bees hum expectantly over open l)looms. 
d he activities of Nature go on silentl}', in¬ 
sistently. . . . Then through this peace comes 
the tinkle of cup against saucer, and the melody 
of voices. 
The setting must be right for the perfect 
tea in a garden. The mood must be right, too. 
But much of the mood depends upon the set¬ 
ting, and much of the setting upon the way the 
tea is sensed and the accessories that make it 
possible for the hostess to offer her guests the 
quiet pleasures of this al fresco hospitality. 
It is a matter of linen and glass, china and 
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Enameled wil¬ 
low, iced tea 
stand, 28" high. 
$ 35 . With 
glasses, jug, etc. 
$60 
