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signed to give charac¬ 
ter to an estate and are 
much more effective 
than the ordinary type. 
Take as an instance, a 
wooden gate with 
strapped hinges that 
leads into a duck yard. 
Cut out the figure of a 
duck in the lower 
panel, which may be 
silhouetted in black by 
the placing of a thin 
piece of painted wood 
underneath, and it at¬ 
tracts the attention the 
moment one enters the 
garden. Carrying out 
the old-fashioned idea 
this gate demands a 
( Con’t on page 66) 
Whereas the gates of Eng¬ 
lish manorial estates bore 
the owner’s coat of arms, 
the American garden bears 
the symbol of the owner’s 
favorite flower. Thus 
“Iristhorpethe garden of 
Mrs. Homer Gage, a t 
Shrewsbury, Mass., is sym¬ 
bolized in the convention¬ 
alized iris of the gate. 
Mrs. Gage’s garden is 
well known for its iris 
For an old-fashioned garden especially there is 
no type of fence or gate to equal the Colonial post 
and paling. Whereas the paling used to be placed 
quite close together, it is now the custom to use 
them farther apart, affording a glimpse of the 
garden beyond. The gate posts can be finished 
with ornamental urns. This gate lets on the old- 
fashioned garden of the William Brewster Page 
house at Fitchburg, Mass. 
Quite an unusual interest is given the minor gar¬ 
den gates if the symbol of the place to which they 
lead is marked. This little wooden gate with 
strap of iron hinges and a duck ornamentation 
opens into the duck yard of a garden at Oster- 
ville, Mass. 
