House & Garden 
Lewis Warrington, 
born Virginia, 1782; 
died 1861; educated 
at William & Mary 
College; entered 
U.S. Navy 1800; 
served daring 
Tripolitan war; as 
Master - Command - 
ant of “Peacock’* 
captured British 
“Epervier” after 
engagement of 42 
minutes. This vic¬ 
tory gained his Cap¬ 
taincy, gold medal 
and thanks of Con¬ 
gress, 1814; Presi¬ 
dent of the Board 
of Navy Commis¬ 
sioners, 1841: Chief 
of Bureau or Yards 
and Docks, 1842 - 6. 
Town near Pensa¬ 
cola Navy Yard 
named in hi9 honor. 
Lewis Warrington, American Naval Officer 
By Rembrandt Pealr ( 1778 - 1860 ) 
Size of canvas 30" x 25" 
L/ur collection of paintings by the Old 
Masters” is the largest in the country. 
The pictures sold by us are always ex¬ 
changeable at the full purchase price. 
OBJECTS OF ART 
ENGLISH 
PERIOD FURNITURE 
OLD ENGLISH INTERIORS 
TAPESTRIES 
LONDON— 
27-29 Brook Street W. 
Charles of London 
718 FIFTH AVENUE 
N EW YORK 
The Popularity of the Rag Mat 
{Continued, from page 56) 
rug, but to the expert there is as much 
difference as in a painting. Weavers 
show individual characteristics as did 
various artists. Careful study is neces¬ 
sary to understand these details so that 
one can tell by sight and feel the make 
and history of a hooked rug. 
Often these rugs are made by com¬ 
bining hooked rags and yarn. This gives 
added variety and softness to the fin¬ 
ished article. Many of the hooked rugs 
resemble in design and coloring the old 
needlework used in William and Mary 
and Queen Anne furniture. Hence they 
are eminently suitable for use in a 
room which is furnished in this style. 
They are also suitable with Spanish 
furniture, for rag rugs were not uncom¬ 
mon in Spain. The Spanish hooked rugs 
generally had a fringe known as “spaced 
edging”—an alternating color binding. 
In most Spanish rugs there is a touch 
of bright yellow either in design or 
fringe. These are not made of cloth, 
cut into strips as were the New Eng¬ 
land rugs, but yarn, the loops being 
far apart and seldom cut. The design 
is generally primitive, rectangular, such 
as conventional birds, trees or strongly 
Moorish patterns. 
Summer Thoughts in Winter 
(Continued from page 14) 
How well Waiter Prichard Eaton has 
said for us who live the year round in 
the country that Spring does not, as 
many people think, begin with apple- 
blossoms; but when its bagpipes, like 
those at Lucknow, “were heard far off 
and faint.” “When the little .frogs pipe 
from each warm pool; when the color 
of trees large and small changes with 
the uprunning of the sap; when the 
swamps are encarnadined with dog¬ 
wood stems.” 
Now with this renaissance, with this 
renewal, how can we who garden fail 
to put forth a welcoming hand to what 
is new in our own province? New 
plants, new flowers, new shrubs, new 
trees. We are as sheep-like in horticul¬ 
ture as we are in dress. No sooner 
does one town cover itself with Spiraea 
Van Houttei as with a garment, than 
another follows suit. In consequence, 
and even in these enlightened days, the 
American May and June in many lo¬ 
calities have taken on a shroud-like 
pallor of dead-white bloom. I know 
the value of this shrub. I can fancy 
the furore which must have followed 
its arrival and distribution in this 
country, but—we have too much of it. 
So, too, with the two barberries, vul¬ 
garis and Thunbergii. Our suburbs and 
larger and smaller towns deserve such 
names as Spireatown, Barberryville. 
And the monotony is inexcusable now, 
for every list contains beautiful vari¬ 
ants on these shrubs and on others, 
such as syringa, Philadelphus, hydran¬ 
gea, lonicera, so lovely, so unusual in 
beauty and so new that the variety we 
need to save us is not only here but of 
the highest possible interest and order. 
Who that has seen any collection of the 
newer lilacs (Syringa) in flower would 
be satisfied to have only the common 
form? Marie Le Graye, Mme. Emile 
Lemoine, the single and double whites, 
Souvenir de Ludwing Spaeth, Toussaint 
l’Ouverture, the wondrous purples, Belle> 
de Nancy (almost a blue), Philemon, 
with its great panicles of pinkish-mauve 
—the list is only hinted at here. Listen 
to this description of Syringa Swegin- 
zowic superba: “This superb plant was 
introduced from Central China through 
the Paris Museum. Its leaves, of mod¬ 
erate size, are dull green and sharply 
pointed; its flowers, borne in long clus¬ 
ters covering the whole shrub in June, 
are of a soft flesh color and deliciously 
fragrant; it is one of the loveliest 
shrubs we possess.” Or this bit con¬ 
cerning Syringa Emile Gentil: “Good 
thyrses of large, full and imbricated 
flowers, bright cobalt blue, a very rare 
shade among lilacs.” 
Who that has once stood entranced 
before the wonderful flowers of Vibur¬ 
num Carlesii, that has breathed its 
sweet and pungent fragrance, could re¬ 
main content to possess only Viburnum 
opulus? Why sit down in dull content 
beside the ubiquitous barberries afore¬ 
said when such a marvel as Wilson's 
barberry, when the charms of the sev¬ 
eral cotoneasters, are easily purchas¬ 
able? Until these things are seen by 
one’s own eye, however, it is difficult 
to interest the individual in them. The 
new Philadelphus tribe, the new wei- 
gelas—these are like the products of 
a dream; the new deutzias, like their 
originals or types but so much more 
beautiful, more distinguished. 
Fads and Planting Fashions 
We in this country have passed 
through various periods of fashion in 
gardening and in shrub planting. In 
driving through towns of various States 
one notices this. There was, of course, 
the obnoxious time when the golden¬ 
leaved shrub was the thing; a later 
period when the blue spruce predom¬ 
inated as a feature of the planting. In 
a town on the highroads of New York 
I could not help thinking that the 
motto of its inhabitants at one time 
must have been “A Weeping Elm for 
Every Home.” Similarly in parts of 
New England every dooryard in count¬ 
less numbers of localities has its hy¬ 
drangea, a single specimen always, and 
sometimes grown to a height and ful¬ 
ness of inflorescence which makes it a 
strikingly interesting spectacle. These 
things go in waves; waves of interest 
in the thing seen —my moral from this 
being, let more of us indulge from time 
to time in what is new. Let us try ar¬ 
rangements of new and unknown flow¬ 
ers in our borders; new shrubs at the 
edges of our grassy lawns. 
We really have no excuse for staying 
too long by the older things. Such 
beauties are now offered in at least 
three lists I could mention, lovely 
things from China, Japan, Korea, 
beautiful hybrids from France, that it 
would be absurd to say that these sub¬ 
jects were not to be had here. Is there 
a woman among gardeners who has not 
an open eye for lovely trailing things 
for decorative use with fruit upon her 
table ? To such I should like to say that if 
she has been satisfied hitherto with 
Ampelopsis Veitchii’s terminal garlands 
of finely set and colored leaves, what 
will be her delight when she sees for 
the first time Ampelopsis aconitifolia — 
that perfect beauty from Korea? Ab¬ 
solutely hardy, tested now for long in 
the Arnold Aboretum, it is so lovely in 
the form and color of its leaf, so grace¬ 
ful in its way of growing, that one can¬ 
not too highly commend it. No one 
should dispraise—to coin a word—the 
old and ever beautiful Hall’s Honey¬ 
suckle, but there is a richness of color 
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