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House & Garden 
Enjoy a “BOSSERT” Summer! 
^PHIS summer, give yourself and family a change— 
A not only in location, but in mode of living. Get dose 
to nature! Pick out a delightful spot on the shore of a 
lake or in the depths of the woods, put up one of the beau¬ 
tiful, cozy, inexpensive 
A Hepplewhite “Confidante," a page illustra¬ 
tion from his book of furniture designs 
Collecting Couches, Settees and Sofas 
(Continued from page 78) 
Bossert Bungalows 
and enjoy the fun and indepen¬ 
dence of outdoor life without any 
of its discomforts. You will save 
money, too, by saving the war¬ 
time costs of living at summer 
resorts. And you’ll own a perma¬ 
nent summer home that will keep 
a worth-while amount of money 
in your pocket every summer for 
years to come. 
Bossert Bungalows are quickly 
and easily put up and just as con¬ 
veniently taken down, enabling you 
to change the location of your bun¬ 
galow as your fancy dictates. Sim¬ 
ple and complete instructions for 
assembling are furnished. 
Bossert Bungalows are sturdy 
and substantial, and offer remark¬ 
able value. Their prices are much 
lower than the cost would be were 
you to attempt to duplicate them in 
the old-fashioned, expensive hand- 
labor wav. 
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architectural styles and at a wide range of prices 
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All details of Bossert construction are fully covered by U. S. patents 
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Dreer’s 
Famous 
American 
Asters 
Asters are 
now the leading 
late Slimmer 
and Autumn 
flower both for 
cutting and for 
effect in the 
garden, and 
every flower 
lover should 
make a gener¬ 
ous planting. 
We offer this 
season over sixty 
kinds and colors, all "Made 
in America" and of the 
highest quality. 
We especially recommend 
our collection of Six Famous 
American varieties contain¬ 
ing a liberal packet each of 
Peerless Pink, Crimson 
King, Crego's Giant Pink, 
Crego’s Giant White. Rose 
King and Violet King. Price 
for any of the sorts 15 cts. 
per packet, or the entire 
collection for 65 cts. post¬ 
paid. 
For complete descriptions 
and cultural notes on above 
as well as a vast amount of 
information on Flowers and 
Plants of all kinds. Vegetable 
and Grass Seeds, send for 
DREER’S GARDEN BOOK FOR 1918 
256 Pages, profusely illustrated. 
Free on application if you 
mention this magazine. 
HENRY A. DREER 
714-716 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia 
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of couches or what the French call Peche of walnut. 
Mortel.” It has not been my good for¬ 
tune to come across a Sheraton couch, 
The William and Mary period settees 
found the double chair back in favor, 
- 'aouum X-iIO.il uaLK in idVUI 
the strict sense of the word, though I and comfortable indeed were these set- 
presume such wei e made by [ homas tees, may of them being provided with 
Sheraton (1750-1806). His Cabinet squab cushions in addition to their up- 
maker and Upholsterer’s Drawing Book” bolstered seats, backs and ends. The 
first appeared in 1791 , but it concerned William and Mhry settees were some- 
itself with settees and sofas instead of what shorter than the generously long 
dwelling particularly on true couch de- settees of the Jacobean period. 
S1 ?ru Queen Anne settees were designed 
I he couches of the French periods— with straight backs, these backs doing 
Louis XIV (1643-1715), Louis XV away with the double hoop backs of the 
(1715-1774), Louis XVI (1774-1793), settees of the reign that preceded Anne, 
and of the Empire (1793-1830)—all fol- These backs were considerably lower 
low the well known lines of these Louis and as with the couches, the cabriole 
Quatorze,. Louis Quinze,. Louis Seize leg formed a distinctive characteristic 
and Empire styles, and it will not be 
necessary here to go into detail con- 
In the Queen Anne settees of a later 
time the double back without upholstery 
cerning them. The English and Ameri- came in again. The seats of these set- 
can cabinet-makers of the years 1793 tees were covered, but cushions were de- 
to 1830 adapted French Empire styles pended upon for occasional use at the 
and as a result produced furniture back. 
which we may^ designate as English Em- Chippendale’s settees followed the 
pire or American Empire, as the case lines of his designs for chairs. His win- 
may be. 
Settees 
The settee of the 
Jacobean period was 
a development of the 
double chair or love 
seat. It followed the 
general style of the 
period in legs and 
stretchers. The back 
was generally uphol¬ 
stered. It was not 
in general use until 
walnut had come to 
supersede oak. For 
this reason the Ja- 
Early American courting 
chair, made of maple and 
hickory. Metropolitan 
Museum 
dow seats did likewise. Colonel Went¬ 
worth’s “Chinese 
Settee” of the Chip¬ 
pendale style is now 
in the Ladd House 
at Portsmouth, New 
Hampshire. 
Very elegant in¬ 
deed were the settees 
and window seats of 
the Brothers Adam. 
Both coincided in 
lines with Adam 
chairs. The win¬ 
dow seats, though 
so often following 
( Cont. on page 82) 
Two more designs for couches from Thomas 
l hippendale s master work ott furniture design 
