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House & Garden 
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An Intimate Plenishing 
A Pillow for the Body 1 
attresses are the most intimate 
plenishing in your home. One 
should be as fastidious con" 
cerning mattresses as about lingerie. 
The sanitary virtues of a mattress are of 
more vital consideration than the quality 
of the bed linen or ovencoverings, for 
these items are regularly laundered and 
cleansed. 
The Sealy Sanitary Tuftless Mattress is 
designed to be hygienic. The absence of 
tufts is a wholesome Sealy feature. Its 
responsiveness to bodily position actually 
induces sleep. 
A billowy batt of air-woven cotton (a 
Sealy invention) is deftly tucked into a 
winsome covering and the simple but 
sufficient Sealy is created. 
A Twenty-Year Sleep Insurance Policy 
is written for every Sealy sold, insuring against 
the packing, lumping or spreading of the mattress. 
Only the finest long-fibre cotton and high-quality 
covering materials enter into the making of our 
finely tailored mattress. 
We will gladly supply a Booklet about the Sealy, 
some smart covering samples and the name of a 
dealer who will sell you a Sealy on a sixty-night 
trial basis. 
Sealy SWattress Company 
Dept, h.g.m. SUGAR LAND, TEXAS 
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Arbors, Summer-Houses and Trellises 
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as a “glimpse” or as a definite feature 
centering attention, and a suitable sup¬ 
port for whatever growth you elect to 
plant beside it. 
It is obviously difficult to be more 
specific than this in dealing with the 
subject generally. Every arbor that is 
built will be a problem in itself, both as 
to location and design, and every builder 
of an arbor must solve for himself all 
of those questions which arise when he 
turns his attention to it. There will be 
doubt and changing of mind a dozen 
times over, invariably—if snap judg¬ 
ment or previous prejudice are not al¬ 
lowed to settle the whole matter; but 
eventually all of this will clear away, 
and then it is time to get to work. 
I would like to make a very clear dis¬ 
tinction between an arbor and a sum¬ 
merhouse—not that the terms are inter¬ 
changeable or used as if they were, but 
because it is usual to think of all garden 
structures as more or less alike and 
serving the same purpose. An arbor, 
however, may serve as a screen and fre¬ 
quently does so serve; but a summer¬ 
house or garden retreat cannot, because 
it is essential that from such a retreat 
the garden picture on all sides must be 
satisfactory. Moreover, a garden house 
is all that its name implies—an actual 
shelter, even though open at the sides; 
and distinctly separate and apart from 
other buildings. Hence its place is 
usually quite remote from the dwelling, 
and its part in the composition sugges¬ 
tive rather than definite—a glimpse of 
roof line through trees and over shrubs, 
perhaps, which shall allure with its hint 
of something not seen, and invite to ex¬ 
ploration. 
This element of suggestion is a large 
factor in landscape design, and the 
right use of all resources invariably 
counts largely in it. Nothing wiser was 
ever said than that a garden must have 
mystery; no greater mistake can be made 
than to reveal it in its entirety—to put 
all its goods in the window, if I may 
resort to the vernacular. 
The Use of Trellises 
Trellises are useful everywhere, as 
screens, as enclosures, as plant supports 
pure and simple, and as decorative ac¬ 
cessories on buildings and in the gar¬ 
den. One can scarce go wrong in the 
matter of using a trellis, indeed, except 
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as he falls into the error of over-elab¬ 
orating and allows trelliage to master 
the situation. This is always possible 
with anything, no matter how good it is 
in itself. But that is no reason for fore¬ 
going the trellis, or withholding the en¬ 
thusiasm that is justly due. 
Use trellis work as lavishly as occa¬ 
sion permits, tempering the use with a 
constant recollection of the first prin¬ 
ciple of good design: mass. This will 
preserve the garden from all sorts of 
unhappy things, and preserve the en¬ 
thusiast from scattering detached trel¬ 
liage about the place; for mass, ap¬ 
plied to this, is exactly the same as ap¬ 
plied to anything else. It means trellis 
work as a unit where a large amount is 
desirable—or as several units, possibly, 
of varying size and “weight” in the pic¬ 
ture—rather than a scattering of in¬ 
dividual trellises here, there and every¬ 
where. 
On the other hand, the individual 
trellis is perfectly all right and in 
thorough accord with good design, when 
occasion permits or requires it. This 
will be where just the individual plant 
requires support, in the rather old- 
fashioned garden such as harbors the 
old fan designs against which some 
highly prized rose or newly acquired 
vine was displayed, like the spread 
feathers of a peacock’s tail. 
Trellis work, or lattice work as it is 
perhaps more often called in this con¬ 
nection, spreading its tracery against a 
building, is coming to be more and more 
recognized as a highly decorative fea¬ 
ture in itself, apart from the support it 
affords for decorative vines. The 
shadows which it casts on a white 
painted wall vary monotony without in¬ 
terrupting continuity, and all sense of 
glare departs immediately. Against 
buildings of plaster, stone or cement, the 
light woodwork softens the uncom¬ 
promising character of the material. In¬ 
stances of this architectural use of 
trellis work are not uncommon; and I 
would especially recommend its possi¬ 
bilities to the consideration of those 
who are annoyed and puzzled by a broad 
expanse of bareness on house or other 
building. 
Similarly, where lack of space pre¬ 
cludes the planting of a tree, and yet 
there is a craving for some note of 
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A well-designed and well-used pergola is in the garden of Mrs. Charles Spiegel, 
Shelbyville, Ind. It was awarded first prize in the local garden dub contest 
