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House &. Garden 
Papers 
! For the Home 
A Q U E S 'F I O N 
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BOSTON 
96-98 Federal St 
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS 
(New York Cit.vl 3621 Broadway 
BROOKLYN 
Flatbush & DeKalb .\ves. 
NEWARK 
141 Halsey St. 
On the Trail of the Highboy 
(Continued from page 70) 
pieces, though often beautiful. Being 
so heavy and massive, they were made 
in two parts. There were three or four 
wide drawers in the lower part and 
usually five, slightly narrower, above. 
They stood on ogee bracket feet or 
dwarfed cabriole legs with ball-and- 
claw feet. They were made of ma¬ 
hogany and usually had the ornamental 
bonnet tops and finials, brass es¬ 
cutcheons, moldings, carvings, and some¬ 
times fretted decorations. Both Chip¬ 
pendale and Heppelwhite designed 
chests-on-chests of this sort. 
A variation of this style which ap¬ 
peared between 17S0 and 1775 was the 
block front. This form, probably of 
American origin, reached its highest de¬ 
velopment in Rhode Island. It was 
extremely decorative and is highly prized 
by American collectors. The block front 
is more commonly found on desks and 
secretaries, but was occasionally used 
on highboys and chests-on-chests. 
By 1775 in England the highboy and 
chest-on-chest had become so tall and 
massive that they went out of popular 
favor. They continued popular here 
for ten or fifteen years longer, when we 
adopted the lower chests of drawers of 
Shearer, Heppelwhite, and Sheraton, 
which were later followed by the bureau. 
A GARDEN in a BACK YARD 
ELSA REHMANN 
T his is ever so small a garden, yet 
see how much has been made of it. 
An oval pool is set in an oval 
flower bed. Then there is a narrow 
grass border edged with box. Next is 
an oval path of broken stones. And 
all this is set inside a border full of 
flowers with cedars and flowering shrubs 
and vines as its frame. 
Think of having flowers all the time 
in such a tiny garden! In the little 
bed around the pool, for instance, pur¬ 
ple hyacinths come out early in the 
spring. A little later there are lilac 
and purple tulips. All through the sum¬ 
mer there is heliotrope in an all-over 
pattern and then late in the fall yellow 
chrysanthemums are set out in full 
bloom. The outer border begins its 
bloom even earlier with lilac and pur¬ 
ple crocuses all around the edge of the 
path. A little later golden tuft and 
lilac creeping phlox spread their bloom 
over the stones, while daffodils come 
out like a rich band of golden bloom, 
with a few forsythia bushes, their leaf¬ 
less pendant branches full of golden 
bells, to repeat the springlike color in 
the background. 
The little edging plants are in full 
bloom when the tulips raise up their 
yellow, lilac, bronze and purple cups. 
Gradually the scene changes. Phlox 
and golden tuft fade, the tulip cups 
fall, and in their place columbines in 
yellow and lilac shades are scattered 
lavishly through the border with here 
and there decorative clumps of iris in 
pale yellow, lilac-blue and purple. And 
there is a new edging plant, lilac-blue 
nepeta, to weave its delightful bloom 
into the gray of its foliage. At about 
this time, too, lilacs and wistarias are 
in flower and a few Harrison’s yellow 
roses. In midsummer, while the house 
is closed, there is a lull in the bloom 
of the border, but later there are yel¬ 
low snapdragons and gladiolus, lilac 
asters and buddleias, purple gladiolus 
and asters for the autumn effect. 
The flowers come and go so magi¬ 
cally, repeating again and again with 
ever a new variation the lovely color 
scheme of yellow, lilac and purple.‘ 
Who would think that they all find 
room in such a tiny garden, and who 
would imagine that the garden is only 
a small backyard in the city? 
Thh little backyard garden is planned to bloom in spring, early 
summer and fall, for in midsummer the house is closed. It was de¬ 
signed by Marian C. Coffin for Mrs. Otto Wittpenn, Jersey City, N.J. 
