Garden Accessories 
itself. Yet even these did not suffice, for lower 
down the river at St. Leonard’s they had an extra 
store-house and barn and also a small church under 
the care of five or six brothers. 
Many of the rights of the Abbey, such as freedom 
from tolls, the rights of common throughout the 
year in the New Forest, and other advantages which 
had been granted to the monks were confirmed and 
conferred on the Earls of Southampton and their 
successors. 
I may add that no one will regret spending some 
days in this lovely spot, and a charming, quiet Inn 
in the village will provide all that is needed. The 
drives all round are beautiful, and no one could 
fail to enjoy a few days spent in “Bello Loco Regis,” 
or the King’s Beaulieu. 
GARDEN ACCESSORIES 
SOME FORMAL AND RUSTIC SUMMER-HOUSES 
By Loring Underwood 
A lmost aii home 
grounds (large or 
small, formal or naturalistic) 
have a place where a sum¬ 
mer-house would add to 
their charm, by serving as 
an outdoor living-room and 
oft'ering an interesting fea¬ 
ture to the landscape. Who 
of us cannot recall many a 
garden, beautiful in itself 
but decidedly unlivable 
because of the exposure of 
all its parts to the hot sum¬ 
mer sun ? Surely such a 
garden as this calls for a 
shady retreat where one may sit and more fully 
enjoy the beauty of the surroundings. 
The garden tem¬ 
ple in Marie An¬ 
toinette’s hamlet 
at Versailles and 
the recessed gar¬ 
den-house in the 
Villa Borghese, 
Rome, would look 
out of place in 
most American 
private grounds or 
gardens, but a rus¬ 
tic thatched sum¬ 
mer-house like that 
in the Leicester 
Hospital garden or 
the one with a roof 
of pine-needles, 
would look “fit” in 
many a cosy cor¬ 
ner we have passed 
whde retreating from a gar¬ 
den in search of relief from 
the persistent heat of a sum¬ 
mer’s day. For grounds 
of formal design, however, 
with their stiff' arrangement 
of terraces, paths, flower 
beds and other symmetrical 
parts, we should choose the 
summer-house of classic 
outline. There is something 
dignified and inspiring 
about these formal struc¬ 
tures when seen with im¬ 
posing surroundings. 
The illus tration of a 
summer-house thatched with pine-needles shows 
one built by the author. It overlooks a meadow 
on one side and a 
garden on the 
other. With the 
exception of the 
seats that are built 
around the interior, 
it is made entirely 
of red cedar posts 
and poles that 
were obtained of a 
f a r m e r who was 
, cleaning up some 
pasture land. In 
floor plan it is an 
elongated decagon, 
eighteen feet by ten 
feet, the shorter 
m e a s u r e m e n t 
being the distance 
between the two 
white pines. If the 
Summer-house Thatched with Straw. Leicester Hospital, 
Warwick, England 
SUMMER-HOUSE THATCHED WITH PINE-NEEDLES, BELMONT, MASS. 
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