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House & Garden 
A WOMAN whose taste shows itself 
instinctively in line table linen and 
silver can afford to be no less exacting in 
her selection of china. For her, the name 
Theodore Haviland 
FRANCE 
stands as not only the oldest tradition in the 
making of fine china but the most perfect 
appointment for her modern demands. 
A product of Franee, the recognized world 
center of art. The work of the most skilful 
ceramic artists that France has produced. 
By no means as expensive as its reputa¬ 
tion might suggest. And a woman can 
start with a minimum number of pieces and 
build towards a complete service. 
Theodore Haviland China has a deli¬ 
cacy of design, a hardness of body and 
glaze, scarcely to be found in any other 
china product in the world. It will not 
crackle or discolor. It can be purchased 
wherever fine china is sold. 
The illustrations feature the new Pilgrim shape 
with the Eden and Paradise decoration—one of 
the most charming designs ever offered. 
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An informal screen for the garden is made with bean 
pole fencing, slender poles fixed on two lines of 
stout wire, which may be trimmed to any outline 
Screening the Objectionable 
(Continued from page 108) 
the latter purpose arborvitae, hemlock 
and cedar are splendid. They can be 
sheared to any desired shape and remain 
green throughout the year. Buckthorn 
also serves this purpose admirably, as 
it is hardy, tall growing, and, when 
properly clipped, forms a dense hedge. 
There is also the ubiquitous privet which 
can be allowed to grow a screening 
height by judicious yearly shearings. 
In this same category could be placed 
honey locust, which can be pruned into 
shape and is not unlike privet in ap¬ 
pearance and is quite as hardy. A 
beech tree hedge is a wonderful thing to 
look upon, but it is a dream that re¬ 
quires time, patience and a faithful 
gardener to reach fulfillment. 
While all of these types of material 
can be clipped to an architectural for¬ 
mality of line, which may be desirable to 
present to the public side of the prop¬ 
erty, additional and lower planting on 
the house side of the hedge would give 
a more interesting view from the win¬ 
dows. In this case the front hedge 
would serve as a tall background to a 
planting of other shrubbery, preferably 
the flowering shrubs and broad leaved 
evergreens. Against such a wall of 
greenery how beautiful would appear 
the sucession of these plants—corneilan 
cherries, rhododendrons, lilacs, spireas, 
viburnums and Japanese honeysuckle. 
All over the world, people have 
chosen, for numerous reasons, to build 
close to the highways, yet they have 
taken great care to make the enclosed 
space as attractive as possible. When 
this splendid practice is followed it is 
unwise to allow your garden wall to 
“close up” for the winter season, but 
realize that by the use of evergreens 
you can make it as much a delight in 
winter as in summer. A little statuary, 
an ornamental tub, a vase of terra cotta 
a fragment of marble or bronze, can be 
used in many delightful ways. I par¬ 
ticularly advocate the use of terra cotta, 
as it gives in winter, by reason of its 
delightful warm color, a very pleasing 
effect against the evergreen planting. 
It is further delightful to have an ir¬ 
regular row of bulbs to follow the line 
of the fence or wall, so that spring may 
sound its welcome note of color under 
the protection of that wall. 
It is most important to indicate with 
the screening what is to be found behind 
it. A fence or wall or hedge too ornate 
or too formal for the house which it 
screens is apt to seem incongruous. 
Local Materials and Local Labor 
(Continued from page 90) 
“helper”, will gradually get the work 
done. He may stop carpentering now 
and then to get in his hay, or perform 
some other necessary farm work, but 
he has no “overhead” as a contractor, 
or any payroll. If time is not an eco¬ 
nomic factor, local labor is to be rec¬ 
ommended on minor building projects 
in remote localities, because the con¬ 
tractor, in the nearest town, must give 
a figure necessarily out of proportion 
to the work involved in order to allow 
for bad weather, waiting for materials 
by freight, and other inevitable delays. 
To get acquainted with the ability of 
local labor, it is well to be shown some 
work already performed in the neigh¬ 
borhood, and before engaging it, to go 
over the plans very thoroughly, in or¬ 
der to be convinced that the country 
carpenter quite understands them, and 
is sure he can do the work. This can 
be done only in each separate instance, 
because the abilities of local workmen 
differ, and the projects on which they 
are to be engaged differ. There can be 
no general rule as to the advisability 
of local labor, no rule either of safety 
or of danger, and each prospective 
builder must use his own best judgment 
according to his project and the evi¬ 
dences of ability shown by local car¬ 
penter-builders. 
Reverting to the question of local 
materials—these are confined, in this 
country, mostly to local stones, the use 
of which, especially in remote sites, 
represents a distinct saving in trans¬ 
portation.- 
Certain kinds of woods are of special 
appropriateness, as redwood on the 
Pacific Coast, and cypress in the Gulf 
States, but transportation and organized 
distribution are such today that all 
woods are being used in all localities, 
and little thought is given to their 
geographical availability. In England 
not only stones, but certain slates and 
tiles are of local origin, and add much 
to the picturesque character of English 
cottages and country houses. Our only 
approximation to this quality here lies 
in the present tendency of makers of 
manufactured building materials to dis¬ 
guise machine finishes and to get away 
from too great a standardization of 
sizes, color and textures. Brick, slate, 
tile and many other materials are being 
developed constantly toward greater 
variety in sizes and in colors, and es¬ 
pecially in the matter of texture. 
As long, however, as houses are built 
in country localities, the greatest charm 
and suitability will come from the use 
of local materials, and the greatest in¬ 
dividuality in certain details of work¬ 
manship from the use of local labor. 
