House & Garden 
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Chairs 
Tables 
Benches 
Arbors 
Trellises 
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CUN-ROOM, tea-room 
^ breakfast-room — all 
these as well as porch and 
garden can borrow added 
beauty from Garden-Craft. 
The varied artistic designs 
of Garden-Craft painstak¬ 
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cypress, lend themselves to 
a wide scope of decorative 
styles. 
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by leading furniture and 
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An Adam dining room may have cafe au tail walls with 
ivory moldings, dull bltie velour curtains and notes of 
slate blue, salmon and black 
How To Use Blue 
(Continued from page 59) 
to furnish any room in the house with¬ 
out incorporating blue to some degree. 
And in the living room it is surprising 
how much blue one can have without 
overstepping the line of good taste and 
beauty. Into the framework of gray 
walls, ivory woodwork, and floor cov¬ 
ered with a carpet of black and gray, a 
considerable quantity of blue may be 
warmed into a delightful harmony by 
the right amount of synthetic sunshine. 
Blue in a Living Room 
In this gray-walled living room a few 
blue rugs were thrown on the somber 
carpet, the windows were curtained in 
blue sunfast, a sofa and chair were 
upholstered in blue striped stuff, a blue 
fire screen and footrest were embroi¬ 
dered in warm-toned and brilliant wool, 
and there the blueness slackened and 
the synthetic sunshine stepped in. For 
a wing chair at the side of the fireplace 
was upholstered in mustard appliqued 
with a band of night blue embroidered 
royally in henna, peacock, and mustard. 
On the blue sofa there were pillows 
matching in color the embroidery on 
the chair, also one in blue. There were 
a henna and cream lampshade, yellow 
candles and a copper kettle, all gaily 
shining as doth the sun, and making 
this living room well balanced and en¬ 
tirely livable, as it could never have 
been if just blue. 
But in the blue bedroom particularly 
is there the chance for the reversal of 
things and the indulging of that which 
is dear to the hearts of most of us, 
furniture itself of blue. And with blue 
furniture one does not have nearly so 
much of the color in other places. In 
this particular bedroom rose plays a 
large part in the scheme: the bedspread 
is of ashes of roses, the blue window 
curtains are lined with rose, the inner 
curtains are of white swiss dotted with 
blue, the light above the dressing table 
is of rose with a wool cord and tassel. 
The arm chair is upholstered in blue 
and quilled with rose; the cushion is 
of striped rose and blue taffeta. All 
this against a background of cream 
and atop a gray carpet, and relieved 
by a note here and there of old yellow, 
such as the shade on the bird lamp. 
Cautions for Blue 
Don’t be afraid to have plenty of 
blue about you if you love it. But 
handle it as a tone befitting kings rather 
than one popularly used for bows and 
bands on babies. For blue will stretch 
sublimely to any height of beauty to 
which you dare aspire, and one of the 
greatest helps on the path of aspiration 
is one of the new cretonnes whose plen¬ 
tiful blues are interspersed with enough 
contrasting tones to supply you with 
the nucleus of an enviable blue color 
scheme. This cretonne may have leaves 
of two-toned brilliant blue on a biscuit 
ground and birds with purple tails and 
flaming crests joyously hopping on pur¬ 
ple boughs; or it may be blue grounded 
backing shaggy flowers in richest rose 
and white, brown stemmed, and green 
with leaves. In either case try match¬ 
ing the blue in furniture for your tiny 
breakfast room and you will find the 
world much as it should be, beginning 
your days in such a place. 
Pansies From Year to Year 
(Continued from page 40) 
good food at hand. Rotted barnyard 
manure is probably the best pansy 
fertilizer. I find that my truly fine 
and large pansies, holding up their 
charming faces to the light, are rooted 
in that sort of richness. 
A word as to pansy varieties, or 
strains, as the seedsmen call them. The 
pansy may be increased by cuttings, 
just as geraniums are increased, but the 
plants grown from seed are more sure¬ 
ly vigorous. Seed saved from the finest 
flowers will produce the finest flowers, 
normally, referring to colors and mark¬ 
ings. The soil-food will considerably 
influence the size of the flowers, but it 
will not turn dull, muddy, common col¬ 
ors into satisfactory hues. 
Therefore, the wisely aspiring pansy- 
lover will buy the best seed, either in 
mixture or in separate varieties, from 
a seedsman who puts his honor and his 
reputation into the packet along with 
the little dark brown balls of potential 
beauty. The best is the cheapest, in 
final pansy effect. 
I hope any readers who love pansies 
will try carrying over a few pet plants 
on the plan I have described, the fol¬ 
lowing of which has given visitors to 
Breeze Hill gardens much early spring 
surprise and pleasure. 
