12 
House & Garden 
No, It Isn’t Italy 
There’s always a souvenir of Italy, of course, in 
every garden where tall black cedars stand. And 
the jar, too, brings back lemon trees and blue skies. 
But it's really standing in an American garden, just 
to show you what you can do with oil jars-—now 
that Ali Baba methods are out of date. 
You’ll find oil jars in all their serene classic beauty 
discussed as garden decorations in the 
Garden Furnishings Number 
JUNE 
And there’s the idea of using native shrubs in your 
garden. You’ve seen sumach standing in the 
autumn hedgerows like some huge tropical bird 
preening its scarlet plumage. But have you ever 
tried transplanting it into your garden borders? 
Have you ever brought dog-wood from the thickets 
to come to perfect shape and flower on your lawn? 
There’s elder-berry, too, you know—and all the 
laurels. You can see in this next number what 
other people have done with native shrubs. 
Did you ever think of using your garden to give a 
play in? All fluttering with Greek draperies and 
nymphs? House & Garden publishes a garden 
play in this June number. 
June isn’t all a garden number, of course. It’s 
glittering with mirrors—strange and lovely ones— 
and it proves once and for all that it’s an intel¬ 
lectual by a scholarly article on Persian pottery. 
But if you want gladioli or dovecotes in your gar- 
f ^ en or both—you’ll find out all about them from 
this House & Garden. 
But what it’s really most concerned with is such 
base matters as rose bugs and a can of kerosene. 
Are you wedded to the soil? 
June is the month! 
House & Garden 
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