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The Gazebo and the Garden Wall 
(Continued from page 78) 
The Kestful Corner 
The most comfortable corner of the Living 
Room is incomplete without a Reading Lamp. 
One that is simple in design, yet pleasing to look 
upon is a charming accessory to a restful chair. 
A Read'Right Booklet is yours for the asking. 
For sale at good furniture stores 
and interior decorators, or direct of 
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25 West 45th Street. New York City 
Factory at Milwaukee, Wisconsin 
one chooses, for espaliered fruit trees 
or shrubs. 
The next great asset is privacy. The 
flower garden is, before all else, an 
intimate place to be kept for the delight 
of one’s family and friends and not to 
be exposed to the rude gaze of passers- 
by. It is too personal a thing for that 
and, since its aspect is more or less of 
a personal revelation, entrance into it 
ought to be within the owner’s power 
to control. The garden is a haven to 
be gained and access thereto a privilege 
and a mark of friendship to be conferred 
on those worthy of the favor. To 
spread it forth unscreened to the public 
eye is much like telling all one’s private 
affairs to the first chance comer that 
will lend an ear. If the garden be not 
private, half its restfulness and all its 
proper reserve are gone. And the world 
does not resent the wall and the privacy 
it gives; rather are its respect and a 
stimulating curious desire aroused. 
Furthermore, definite bounds give not 
only a sense of completeness to the space 
contained, but also have a wholesome 
psychological effect in that they spur 
the owner to the fullest intensive culture 
and development of which the space 
is capable and, in fact, act as a filip to 
ingenuity and resourcefulness. 
Last of all, the wall oftentimes serves 
as an indispensable link between the 
house and the gazebo or whatever other 
structure may have to be taken into ac¬ 
count, and is a necessary element to 
the completeness of the architectural 
composition. Whether the wall be of 
brick, of stone, or of stucco, it assumes 
in time a patina or character of surface 
that becomes increasingly beautiful with 
the lapse of years, as those well ac¬ 
quainted with old garden walls can tes¬ 
tify. It is produced by the clinging of 
tendrils, by the growth of mosses and 
lichens, and most of all by the little holes 
and irregularities left by generations of 
gardeners tacking vines against it. No 
matter what the material of the wall 
may be, it can be made in itself a 
source of no little architectural interest 
and satisfaction, a distinct asset to the 
appearance of the place. 
Romantic Gifts of Other Days 
(Continued from page. 21) 
dential friend of Joseph, is a gray 
marble table of the pedestal type. 
We know that the Judge, who man- 
aged the estates of the ex-king in 
America, was the recipient of a gift 
from him of a valuable painting of 
still life by Snyders. The interior of 
Point Breeze near Bordentown, where 
Joseph dwelt for fourteen years, was 
filled with rare tapestries, furniture and 
paintings, many of them given to 
Joseph by Cardinal Fesch, and it was 
among these treasures that Lafayette was 
acclaimed so enthusiastically by the 
people of that vicinity upon the occa¬ 
sion of his call upon the ex-king in the 
days of his memorable return to the 
country he had aided in her need. 
Esther Singleton’s most interesting book, 
“The Furniture of Our Forefathers,” 
quotes from Levasseur’s Lafayette in 
America concerning this historic oc¬ 
casion. 
In this book is pictured also a heavy 
mahogany chair from the library of Na¬ 
poleon I that was given by Louis 
Philippe to the Marquise de Marigny 
of New Orleans. 
Romance now gilds even the gifts of 
the Victorian era, that period of bad 
taste so recently exploited as to be in 
danger of a fashionable renaissance, but 
they shall not be granted space here. 
Time enough when age has softened the 
heavy curse of gigantic walnut night¬ 
mares, the oppression of red velvet and 
the slippery gloom of black horsehair, 
and when only the faintest memory re¬ 
mains of the clever fingers that built 
up the wax fruit piles and embroidered 
the gaudy lambrequins and worsted** 
work slippers! 
The Protection and Special Care 
of Cut-Flower Roses 
TN the northern half of the country 
A cut-flower roses need winter protec¬ 
tion. This may be provided by coarse 
manure, straw, or leaves applied after 
the preparatory pruning has been 
done. Evergreen boughs or even 
branches from deciduous plants are 
often helpful in holding the other mate¬ 
rials in place, besides being a protection 
in themselves. Individual specimens are 
often wrapped in straw or straw and 
burlap. There is some danger of trouble 
from mice in the use of straw and 
strawy manure, especially during hard 
winters. This is minimized by banking 
earth about the plants before mulching. 
This banking of earth is also a most 
effective preventive of injury from 
cold. Earth banked up about the 
plants to a height of a foot or more 
makes an excellent protection, especially 
if covered well with manure after the 
ground first freezes. The earth cover 
must be promptly removed in early 
spring, as soon as danger from freezing 
is past. In some sections it is advisable 
to protect cut-flower rose plants from 
strong winds by shrubbery borders, 
evergreens, vine-covered fences, or other 
windbreaks. 
As opposed to protection in the win¬ 
ter, it is sometimes desirable to subject 
cut-flower roses to somewhat rigorous 
treatment in summer to force a rest. 
This is usually found necessary only 
where plants are grown under irrigation 
a part of the year and have but a short 
winter check. Under such conditions it 
will be advisable to dry the plants out 
for a month or six weeks. 
When plant growth is not satisfac¬ 
tory and some plants do not seem to 
take hold as well as others, the applica¬ 
tion of a diluted liquid manure often 
stimulates and starts a plant to growing 
well. 
