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Garden Rooms In City Houses 
(Continued from page 21) 
Iron furniture, bright yellow jars 
filled with more daisies and an awning 
of orange-red Venetian sail cloth flung 
over the whole changed what had been 
an uninspired red tin roof into a tiny 
garden gay with colorful flowers and 
restful with the green of climbing 
plants. The room behind it was in ef¬ 
fect a garden room and was decorated 
accordingly. The walls were cool gray 
plaster and the furniture wrought iron 
with here and there a piece of rattan. 
The hangings of prim glazed chintz the 
color of Lombardy poplars combined 
well with the green flowered chintz on 
a small settee. On one side was a foun¬ 
tain banked with growing plants and on 
the walls wrought-iron brackets held 
masses of ivy. On entering one was 
immediately conscious of the tiny gar¬ 
den seen through the open French doors. 
The room at once became part of the 
general scheme to merge the garden and 
the house and was a successful example 
of what can be done in the city with 
rooms of this kind whose reasons for 
existence lie in the life of the sun-lit 
garden beyond. 
Framing the Landscape Picture 
(Continued from page 24) 
trasted foreground of a prospect full of 
the softer forms of living nature. 
In the composition of a landscape the 
importance of bringing geometrical 
forms into relation with natural forms 
cannot be over-emphasized. Apart from 
purely esthetic considerations there are 
certain sentimental reasons for bringing 
some form of architecture into a land¬ 
scape. A prospect of nature in which 
there is no evidence of man’s handiwork 
may be profoundly impressive and sub¬ 
lime, but it is also unfriendly. For we 
are naturally gregarious, and few of us 
could bear to live perpetually sur¬ 
rounded by a landscape even appar¬ 
ently, though not actually, empty of 
man and his works. A house, a wall, a 
broken column, serve to give the land¬ 
scape an inhabited appearance, while 
evidences of deliberate formal planting 
in the foreground are enough to endow 
the landscape with humanity. 
Esthetically the contrast of a geomet¬ 
rical foreground with a background of 
natural forms is useful, inasmuch as it 
can be made to bring out and emphasize 
the main lines or to correct some too 
prominent feature of the picture. The 
rigid perpendicular lines of a wall or a 
pillar help out the similar but more con¬ 
fused lines of the farther trees. Or, 
again, an architectural upright in the 
foreground may be used to correct a too 
great tendency to the horizontal in the 
distant landscape. The level lines of a 
terrace wall may be used in an exactly 
similar fashion to emphasize or correct 
other natural lines beyond. Formal 
planting in the foreground may help to 
create an illusion of great space and 
distance or else to give a sense of en¬ 
closure; the character of the landscape 
beyond the garden will determine which. 
Care should be taken, when placing 
the architectural foreground, to see that 
the whole picture should be seen from a 
point at which all its component parts 
in background and foreground stand in 
due scale and proportion to one another. 
The architectural foreground will lose 
its effect if seen from too near or too far 
away. It will be well, therefore, to 
make sure that the picture is seen cor¬ 
rectly by placing a seat at the right 
viewpoint, or by making it in some way 
impossible or difficult for people to look 
at it from any point that brings near 
and far into wrong relation. To do this 
will not always be possible. In most 
cases, indeed, the creator of the compo¬ 
sition will have to leave it to people’s 
esthetic sense to find exactly the right 
point from which the picture is to be 
looked at. 
The ways in which a distant prospect 
may be broken up so as to form a 
studied composition are worth attention 
when we are considering the question 
of windows and doorways as a fore¬ 
ground. The Japanese, for example, 
make great use of trellis as a foreground 
to a view. The landscape is thus made 
to appear in relation to a series of 
purely geometrical forms, to the great 
improvement of the picture as a com¬ 
posed work of art. Much the same 
felicitous relation of geometrical to nat¬ 
ural forms is achieved in windows by 
the division of the space into a series of 
panes, sometimes, as in the case of a 
leaded window, extremely small. 
Of recent times large plate glass win¬ 
dows have been used by people who 
imagine that a view is better when en¬ 
tirely uninterrupted by the interposition 
of a foreground. This is a mistaken 
idea of the matter. The geometrical 
foreground provided by a window di¬ 
vided up into panes in almost all cases 
very much improves the pictorial qual¬ 
ity of the landscape as a work of art. 
Edging Plants for the Perennial Border 
(Continued from page 61) 
to get good clumps or pot grown 
plants at the nursery. Blooms in May 
and June. 
Scotch or Grass Pinks (Dianthus plu- 
marius) 
Still another of the valuable gray- 
green foliage plants having a good 
persistent foliage which is interesting 
even in winter. From late May until 
July they are covered with a multi¬ 
tude of spicy scented blooms in vari¬ 
ous colors. These plants grow rapidly 
and should be divided about every 
three years. They can be raised from 
seed, although one is not so sure of 
the variety and color as when they are 
bought in field grown or pot grown 
clumps. Carmen is the best light pink. 
Napoleon III is a fine blood crimson 
which blooms until late in October. 
Her Majesty is a double white one of 
great beauty. 
Variegated Day Lily (Funkia undulata 
var. variegala) 
All of the Funkias are a little coarse 
for the garden edge, but this one is 
the best. It serves its purpose best in 
corners or at terminal points such as 
the entrance and exits of a garden, 
for it is large enough and sturdy 
enough to mark such places. It has a 
slender green leaf marked with streaks 
of white. Later in the season it has 
a long flower stalk strung with bell¬ 
like flowers of a shade of lavender. It 
is a rapid grower and should be fre¬ 
quently divided. It is an excellent 
edging plant for shrubs or for tall 
perennials, such as peonies, which do 
not hide their feet with good foliage 
at all times. Blooms in July and 
August. 
Avens (Geum Heldrichi) 
A sun and moisture-loving plant 
which grows much after the fashion of 
the dandelion, with thick tufts of 
green foliage above which appear the 
orange colored flowers in May and 
until August. It is to be had in a 
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