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House & Garden 
Frank Davis Residence, Louisville , Ky. 
Your Grass Cutting 
Problems Simplified 
The work of taking care of large areas of grass is greatly simplified 
where Ideal Power Lawn Mowers are used. For one man with an Ideal 
can easily do as much work per day as five hard working men with 
hand mowers. Best of all, the Ideal, besides providing this big saving 
in labor, also does better work. 
Moreover, any lawn that is cared for the Ideal way is always well 
rolled, because the Ideal is a power mower and power roller in one, 
and the sod is rolled every time the grass is cut. Authorities on lawn 
care agree that rolling is a vital necessity to any well kept lawn. 
That the Ideal is of great value in caring for large lawns is plainly 
evidenced by the thousands in use on private estates, municipal parks, 
college grounds, golf courses, ball parks, industrial grounds, school 
grounds, cemeteries, etc. Here are just a few names from the thou¬ 
sands of Ideal owners: Geo. W. Perkins, Riverdale, N. Y.; Spring- 
field Park Dept., Springfield, Mass. ; City and County of Denver, 
Denver, Colo.; Midland Golf Club, Midland, Ont.; Atkins Residence, 
Indian Hill, Ill.; Dr. C. E. Burt, Beverly Hills, Calif.; Princeton 
University, Princeton, N. J. 
With riding trailer, the Ideal makes the most practical and economical 
riding mower possible to procure. Furnished either with or without 
riding trailer. 
Special cutting unit can be furnished with mower for work on golf 
courses. 
Any of our dealers will gladly demonstrate the Ideal for you. Special 
illustrated catalog upon request. 
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R. E. OLDS, Chairman 
416 Kalamazoo St. Lansing, Mich. 
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At one spot in the new H. H. Rogers garden, flat brick steps create a 
terrace for a garden shelter which is placed naturally, as part of the 
garden wall 
Garden Walls and Shelters 
(Continued from page 59) 
vines are fast covering the walls, nakedness of such garden shelters should 
Even from these unusual examples one be tied to the ground by shrubbery 
can very well read the lesson of handling planted around them to give approach 
even so simple a shelter as a pergola or and background. Nor should these sim- 
a rose arbor seat. In too many of our pie garden shelters be placed without 
gardens we see them set out in the open regard to the lines of the garden itself, 
without any apparent connection with They should form the natural terminus 
other structures on the place. If the for a garden walk or the end of the 
garden is not fenced in with a lattice cross axis or the crossing of the two or 
wall, or with a hedge, then the stark more garden axes. 
The Aristocrat of Shrubs 
(Continued from page 51) 
people forbade the pleasures of a garden, 
but it was in the well ordered beds of 
“simples” and herbs that the box found 
a home. 
Later “company gardens” found fa¬ 
vor, and each dooryard had a box-lined 
walk, and beds neat edged with the stiff 
twigged box, and filled with the humble 
flowers our grandmothers loved. Some 
of these gardens still exist. The rigors 
of the winter winds and snows have not 
downed these sturdy plants. 
In the South the climatic conditions 
were less severe and we find the box 
more abundant. But we must also re¬ 
member that the people who founded 
their homes there did not turn their 
backs so emphatically on the mother 
country. Therefore they used more of 
the plant material with which they 
were familiar, and planted it after the 
fashion which was prescribed as correct 
in the 17th Century. The parterres 
were all box bordered. 
One of the most popular designs in 
the southern gardens was a huge circu¬ 
lar garden with a fountain or a large 
bush of box in the center where the hub 
of a wheel would be, and paths radiat¬ 
ing from it like the spokes of a wheel, 
marking the box-bordered parterres. 
Then around the whole a hedge of box 
like a tire. Another popular form was 
to lay out a huge sundial with the fig¬ 
ures made of small box plants. 
But now when the cry for the antique 
is loud, long and insistent, these old 
gardens are not to be found, because 
they are not. For although fragments 
may linger here and there, the old-fash¬ 
ioned garden in its completeness is a 
thing of the past. In Washington and 
other older cities of the South one may 
behold a sturdy bush thriving in a 
dirty, unkempt backyard, its pungent 
odor noticeable above the smells of such 
a place. Again we find a tangled jungle 
where once was beauty and joyousness. 
Overgrowth and decay have laid their 
heavy fingers on it and stripped it of 
its loveliness, but the box still lives. 
Antique box, like old furniture, should 
be inherited. If it does not grow in 
your garden through the foresight of 
previous generations, there is but one 
way to procure it: the nurseryman. 
Old box is now greatly sought after 
to produce immediate effects in elabo¬ 
rate garden schemes. People vie with 
each other in procuring beautiful speci¬ 
mens. Some of the prices are enor¬ 
mous. The more aged, perfect, or his¬ 
torical the specimen is, the more it costs. 
One of the old box hedges is that 
which Betsy Patterson and her gallant 
and courtly lover, Jerome Bonaparte, 
brother of the great Napoleon, planted 
in their garden in Baltimore, before the 
shadow of a throne came between to 
mar and shatter their happiness. 
Through all these years this tragic 
romance has clung to the old hedge, and 
even now, when it has been moved from 
its old home, it is known as the Bona¬ 
parte hedge. Story has it that when the 
evening shadows creep up from Long 
Island Sound, and steal across to the 
gardens where this old hedge now 
stands, the spirits of the bygone days 
slip out from the cool shadows of the 
old bushes and re-live the vanished 
scenes of happier days. 
But be this as it may, we must ad¬ 
mit that the pungent, bitter, spicy odor 
of box steeped in the sun exerts a pe¬ 
culiar influence on our senses. It hyp¬ 
notizes us and awakens within us heredi¬ 
tary memories. We re-create the days 
of yesteryear and feel the romance and 
witchery of the olden times. 
