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House & Garden 
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The LUXURIOUS 
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Satinwood Furniture 
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and polished with a piece of old soft 
silk. None of the bees-wax and tur¬ 
pentine preparations should be used for 
satinwood. If the furniture has been 
allowed to become dry and lustreless a 
little pure olive oil may be applied all 
over the surface; but here judgment is 
needed, as the natural tendency of oil 
is darkening, and after a few minutes it 
is necessary to go over it all again with 
a clean piece of old linen. Stains of 
long standing are difficult to remove 
satisfactorily, and it is not always wise 
to make the attempt. But if the fur¬ 
niture has been neglected and allowed 
to become dirty, it may be washed, 
using a chamois leather, wrung out in 
warm water, to which a little Castile or 
other pure oil soap has been added, that 
is to say, soap without a trace of soda. 
This cleaning must be done quickly, 
and the moisture removed at once. 
An old silk handkerchief, warmed, should 
be used for the final polish. 
The Alluring Garden Gate 
{Continued from page 49) 
long latch and bars across to hold it in 
place. Sometimes the gate will represent 
the figure of a horse, and again sheep 
are shown. While these are odd yet 
they are effective and tell at a glance 
what one may expect to find in the in¬ 
closure beyond. 
Instead of ordinary posts use orna¬ 
mental ones and add a pergola archway 
to frame in the wrought iron decora¬ 
tion. This scheme is worked out in a 
vegetable garden where a basket of 
fruit has been inserted as a motif. This 
shows brick posts with cement orna¬ 
mentation and a decorative archway of 
wrought iron from which a lantern de¬ 
pends. Italian vases are placed at either 
side, with charming effect. Through 
this gate one views a well head which 
breaks the center of the path, while at 
the end a wall fountain defines the 
background. 
Not all wrought iron fences are as 
decorative as these, for often they are 
designed with simply a panel effect and 
lack the polychrome decoration. Again, 
they are simply bars of iron with little 
thought of figure insertion. 
Natural material is coming more and 
more into use, and we find rubble 
walls constructed from stones and 
boulders left sometimes rough and again 
filled in with red cement. The entrance 
posts follow this same line of treatment 
but are often left hollow, packed solidly 
inside with small stones to keep them 
in place, the top filled in with rich 
soil and bright blossoming plants intro¬ 
duced. This gives a charming bit of 
color that acts as a foil for the soft 
gray of the stones. With a rough stone 
pillar it is sometimes in good taste 
to have a solid wooden gateway, pos¬ 
sibly of oak. This can be bolted to¬ 
gether that it may be in keeping with 
the ragged character of the wall or it 
can be elaborated with wrought iron 
strapped hinges in character with the 
architectural design. These are much 
more attractive the second year when 
they have weathered into a picturesque 
pearly gray. 
Among the New Natural Roses 
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“heps” of bright scarlet extend the at¬ 
tractions of the species. 
As a parent, rugosa is a success, and 
I would tell of the glorious blooms of 
some of its progeny if that would not 
lead me too far afield. 
Both Japan and China own as na¬ 
tive the natural rose described botani- 
cally as R. multiflora, and in country¬ 
wide evidence as the specific parent of 
the over-planted Crimson Rambler, 
which, indeed, is probably a natural 
variation of long ago in some Chinese 
garden. Multiflora, many-flowered, 
means also cluster-flowered, and so is 
the great bush that this natural rose 
soon becomes. Its tall stems, eight feet 
and more in height, are crowned with 
a cloud of small white flowers, followed 
by clusters of red fruits or “heps.” 
Far better in the garden is the rare 
Cathayensis form of the multiflora, of 
purely Chinese origin, and desirable 
either as a climber or as a trained bush 
which in June will be covered with 
lovely wands of dainty pink blooms, 
much larger than the true or basic spe¬ 
cies. My Breeze Hill plant of the 
multiflora Cathayensis single rose is one 
of my cherished prizes. 
Multiflora,. too, is a potent parent, 
giving to its progeny the cluster- 
flowered habit of Lady Gay, White 
Dorothy, and others of the so-called 
rambler type of climbers, though they 
do not ramble any faster or farther 
that the large flowered forms of Wi- 
churaiana parentage. 
West China, “six weeks up the 
\ angtse-Kiang,” in the travel phrase, 
has sent us in the past decade some 
wonderful natural roses, new to us, 
but probably as ancient as mysterious 
Cathay itself. Of these I may mention 
only a few, the first of which is the 
very different Rosa Hugonis. 
“Father Hugo’s rose” is the transla¬ 
tion, but Hugonis is easier to say. It 
is an astonishing natural rose, in its 
foliage, in its bloom color, in its earli¬ 
ness. May has hardly settled into her 
bloom stride when one morning I see 
unrolling dainty little close spirals of 
clear and definite yellow into bright 
blooms of the same rare hue, about an 
inch and a half across, and set so closely 
along the arching stems of the plant 
that they provide an almost symmetri¬ 
cal double row, the flowers touching 
each other for a foot, two feet or more. 
The pale green foliage, small and 
dainty, is just what these different flow¬ 
ers seem to need, and the attractive 
oddity of the whole vigorous plant is 
enhanced by the red hue of the younger 
shoots. 
Here is a true shrub among roses, 
providing flowers weeks before any 
other rose dares open, and with a 
graceful arching habit resembling that 
of the well-known Spirea Van Houttei. 
The blooms persist for nearly three 
weeks in an ordinary season, and in 
the fall the foliage sometimes turns to 
a deep purple before frost strips it from 
the plant. 
Hugonis seems generally hardy, and 
it is surely a very real advantage to 
have it in any garden that can give it a 
place to spread to six or eight feet 
through and as high. 
Its hybrids—ah, I must restrain my 
enthusiasm and my pen! But they are 
coming, and in entrancing forms, these 
Hugonis hybrids, worked out by Dr. 
Van Fleet, a very real wizard with the 
plants he loves. 
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