House and Garden 
doing, in view of 
these chances? On 
the whole, in spite 
of certain fortunate 
instances, they 
have not fully re¬ 
alized their duty of 
fostering this in¬ 
creasing demand 
and turning it 
toward the higher 
forms of garden 
ornaments. Phis 
is the conclusion 
reached after a 
somewhat careful 
investigation. The tend¬ 
ency is too much toward 
making immediate profits 
upon cheap products, 
rather than striving to 
establish and enlarge the 
market for the best and 
most personal designs. 
Out of the dozen pot¬ 
teries to which one natur¬ 
ally looks for response to 
this new opportunity 
(which they had no hand 
in creating) only half 
have seriously entered 
the field. TheRookwood 
Pottery at Cincinnati, a 
veteran in the artistic 
working of clay, has done 
nothing yet. Neither 
have the Van Briggle es¬ 
tablishment at Colorado 
Springs nor the Newcomb 
College at New Orleans, 
although the Van Briggle 
firm has begun experi¬ 
menting along these lines. 
Charles Volkmar, whose 
art experience goes back 
to days at Barbizon when 
he was a young and not 
wholly appreciative asso¬ 
ciate of Jean Francois 
Millet and his family, 
has worked years at his 
small pottery at Corona, 
L. I., and more lately at 
Metuchen, N. J., 
without venturing 
into designs upon 
an outdoor scale, 
though he has been 
successful with 
mantel tiles and 
other architectural 
pieces. Robertson, 
of Dedham, has 
sounded the gamut 
of greens and reds 
and grays without 
seeking expression 
through garden 
pottery. Nothing 
has yet come from the 
Low Tile Works at 
Chelsea. 
Designers and pro¬ 
ducers of American gar¬ 
den pottery known to 
the writer are the Merri- 
mac Pottery, at New- 
buryport, Mass.,of which 
T. S. Nickerson is presi¬ 
dent ; the Perth Amboy 
Terra Cotta Company ; 
The Grueby Faience 
Company, of Boston; 
William Galloway’s Wal¬ 
nut Street Potteries, 
Philadelphia; the Poillon 
Pottery, of Woodbridge, 
New jersey; and last, 
though not surpassed by 
any in artistic spirit, one 
of the Brush Guild work¬ 
ers in New York, Lucie 
Fairfield Perkins. Be¬ 
sides these, the Moravian 
Pottery at Doylestown, 
Pa., by assembling large 
tiles on a backing of 
cement, constructs gar¬ 
den vases of square, hex¬ 
agonal or other shapes. 
Let the reader study 
the illustrations repre¬ 
senting these potters, and 
he will be ready to regret 
that so few American de¬ 
signers have carried over 
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