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My Garden in May and June 
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garden beyond, I am struck by the vast 
improvement made this year by the in¬ 
troduction of valerian in eight balanced 
spaces. Especially bold and good is 
this because its silvery flowers rise be¬ 
side spires equally tall of the purple 
Campanula lactiflora, also in full flower. 
Geranium grandiflorum’s low mounds of 
brilliant violet flowers form a lovely 
foreground from where I look, for these 
two taller subjects. This year I have 
this hardy campanula all over my gar¬ 
den. It is only three feet tall at present, 
due to fall moving, and next year it will 
probably exceed height limits; but for 
the present it is giving a most lovely 
effect. The clear-cut flowers, the fine 
pointed upright buds, the uniform 
bright color of the bloom—these attri¬ 
butes make this perennial campanula 
valuable. Through a series of mishaps 
I have this year no Canterbury bells, 
but they are hardly missed, thanks to 
this vivid substitute from their own 
tribe. As C. lactiflora grows old, as it 
becomes established in its appointed 
place, there is a tendency to monotony 
of height in flower stem. Then we 
have a more or less uninteresting barrel- 
like effect of bloom. The remedy for 
this is division and moving in the early 
autumn. 
A Cinderella Room and Some Others 
(Continued from page 25) 
and spacious, despite its ornate belong- 
ings ' . 
Another room in this same house 
which shows a successful use of pattern 
against pattern is a bedroom papered 
with a delicately designed paper of pale 
gray on white, faintly checked panels 
spotted with a pastoral group of a shep¬ 
herdess and her sheep. This paper also 
is finished at the ceiling with a narrow 
bordering of gray. The bed in this room 
is a very narrow Portuguese one, of 
walnut, with an interesting oval head- 
board exactly filled with a pattern of 
old red and white toile-de-Jouy. The 
flat valances and the plain bedspread 
are of toile-de-Jouy, which is very 
sophisticated in its beautiful design,, very 
French in spirit, and yet absolutely 
pleasing against the restrained grisaille 
wall paper. The curtains, also of red 
and white toile, bordered with narrow 
cotton fringe, are merely graceful 
draperies around the windows. They 
are not used to screen the room from 
light, but to frame the sunlit, muslin 
hung openings agreeably. 
In the Hall 
The hallway of this house is very 
small, a mere passage leading into din¬ 
ing room and other hallways, but it 
instantly declares the unusual charm of 
the house to the visitor. Its wall spaces 
are plain green-blue paper, with wide 
borders cut from a Directoire paper. 
The one large wall space is filled with 
an old walnut seat covered with red 
velvet, and the entire floor space is cov¬ 
ered with a circular Aubusson rug, a 
fragment of some old carpet, finished 
with a dark red wool fringe. The gilt 
barometer, very rococo in curves, is 
lovely against the dark blue wall. Small 
candle holders of white and gilt tin are 
the wall lights. This small space is a 
triumph in decorating, for there is noth¬ 
ing to be eliminated, nothing to be added. 
Another charming treatment of such 
a small box-like room, whether it be a 
hallway or telephone closet or powder¬ 
ing room, is to cover the walls with a 
brilliantly colored paper of large design, 
and to frame the spaces with narrow 
bandings. Mirrors are always lovely 
against pictorial or flowering papers and 
plain borderings of color and gold give 
an air of great chic. One such little 
room was papered all over, ceiling and 
walls, with the twenty-five cent paper 
we found in the basement, the light blue 
I spotted with pink and red geraniums. 
The tiny room was only large enough 
for a dressing table and a pair of stools, 
but it simply spills over with color, and 
we have only to leave the door open to 
bring spring into the oak hall from 
which it opens. The paper goes over its 
surface bandbox fashion, but where it 
touches the wood trim of doors and 
windows it is bordered by a dotted 
green band, an inch wide. The one win¬ 
dow is hung with generous curtains of 
bright pink muslin, bordered with dou¬ 
ble ruffles of the widest footing we could 
find. The dressing table is a wooden 
box hung with petticoats of the same 
muslin and above it is a mirror in a 
rather coarse gilt frame. The toilet 
things are of red glass, some old, some 
new. 
A City Dressing Room 
Very different is the dressing room in 
a city house recently done. This little 
room opens from the main hall of the 
house, which is Empire in treatment, 
and a certain amount of Empire feel¬ 
ing has been brought into the guest’s 
dressing room. The walls are papered 
with a plain white paper, the’ ceiling is 
whitewashed, and the decoration of the 
room comes from a brightly colored 
border of old Italian paper, cerise and 
sapphire and pink and yellow swags 
and fringes and garlands. The dress¬ 
ing table is a curving shelf, fitted into a 
mirrored recess. This recess was an ac¬ 
cident of building, and was utilized in 
this way. The shelf is covered with a 
blue and yellow and cream striped silk. 
The two lamps used are of toile, black 
and gilt, with yellow silk shields. Old 
green glass vases hold bouquets of many 
colored flowers, and a few pieces of old 
glass and a small pin cushion repeat the 
gay cerise and blue of the wall paper 
border. The pictures used in this little 
room are old French color prints, with 
blue striped mats. The one chair is of 
black lacquer, covered with Victorian 
silk, sapphire blue, with bouquets of 
flowers in black medallions. The rug 
is a specially made one, of black fur. 
The washstand is an old Empire one of 
walnut and gilt which has been fitted 
with modern plumbing and a black 
lacquered bowl. 
The plain white walls and ceiling 
spaces make the success of the brilliant 
paper border, which is the source of all 
color used in the room. 
You can do surprisingly good things 
with these deep borders and narrow 
bandings. Rooms of large wall surface 
that ordinarily suggest wooden mold¬ 
ings become much more interesting if 
panelled with narrow bandings. In my 
old house in Connecticut I have used a 
number of these old-fashioned borders 
with totally different effects. The long 
double drawing-room, with its six chintz 
hung windows, its sky-blue ceiling, its 
whitewashed walls, and its bare floor 
of wide boards, seemed exactly the right 
place for an eighteen-inch Victorian 
border of blue swags, yellow tassels, and 
pink roses. This gay border is the only 
paper used in the room, and is applied 
directly to the rough whitewashed 
walls. It looks as if it were painted 
on, and is tremendously gay in the cool, 
scantily furnished room. 
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