House & Garden 
Fiske 
Fence 
Your 
Country Estate 
AND it will be done 
F\ right, and it will sta} 
right for years. 
Fiske Chain-Link Climb- 
Proof Fences are the choice 
of those who seek perma¬ 
nence in the fencing of their 
country estates or model 
farms. 
treat her Vane 
Fiske Weather Vanes of every de 
scription, simple or elaborate in de 
sign. Also special designs. Madi 
of copper. Send for special catalog 
I he famous Fiske endurance 
in this type of fencing comes 
from the hot smelter process 
of galvanizing after, not be¬ 
fore , the mesh is woven. Re¬ 
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permanence. 
We contract either to do the 
installation work or will fur¬ 
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prints and full erecting in¬ 
structions. Send for catalog 
' 14 . 
Iron Lamps and Brackets 
This and a wide variety of designs 
in cast or wrought iron and bronze. 
Architects’ special designs executed. 
Send for Special Catalog. 
All span a four-foot walk and are 
seven feet high. Galvanized after 
they are made: ab c n'ute’v rust-proof. 
18 inches wide. $10 
30 inches wide. 12 
J.WFiske WORKS 
ORNAMENTAL IRON WORK 
80 Park Place New\brk 
_ established 1858 
One of the earliest types of English carved 
oak panels is the “Romayne” panel, tran¬ 
sitional in style between Gothic and Renais¬ 
sance, and rudely but vigorously executed 
What To Know About Wood Paneling 
(Continued from page 150) 
The wood, for the most part, was 
oak, the design and construction pleas¬ 
ingly simple and straightforward. “Solid 
oak paneling” is, in this connection, a 
little misleading, because it seems to 
imply a norm of quality, like “sterling 
silver”, when the fact is that a lamin¬ 
ated, or “built-up” panel, veneered with 
cak, is far better from a structural 
point of view than a solid panel. Un¬ 
less a solid panel is very thick, and 
of long seasoning, it is very likely to 
warp, and sometimes to split. The lam¬ 
inated panel, in its best constructed 
form, is composed of four thin sheets 
of wood, glued and pressed together, 
with the grain running opposed at 
right angles and opposed diagonally, 
with a veneer of the finished wood on 
the face. Laminated panels, cut to any 
size, can be bought from woodworking 
companies who specialize in making 
them, and the real reason why the old 
Jacobean builders used solid panels was 
because they had no machinery with 
which to saw wood into thin layers, 
as we have today. The laminated panel, 
obviously, cannot be cut with a deep 
bevel, but as beveled paneling, today, is 
confined almost entirely to work in the 
Colonial style which can be made of 
solid vvhite pine, painted, the laminated 
panel is most frequently used. 
The construction of paneling of the 
modernized Jacobean type is a com¬ 
paratively simple piece of cabinet work, 
and can be performed by any carpenter 
of fair ability. 
The styles, it will be noticed, run 
the whole height of the paneling, be¬ 
tween the bottom rail and the top rail. 
All the intermediate rails are short 
pieces, joined into the styles. The large- 
scale diagram of a section of paneling, 
taken at the joining of a style and rail 
shows that both styles and rails are 
rabbeted in the back, exactly like a 
picture frame, with a three-cornered 
strip holding the panel in place. These 
strips serve the same purpose as the 
nails in the back of a picture frame 
which hold the picture and glass in 
(Continued on page 154) 
The framing of 
panels, with the 
beveled rail and 
method of hold¬ 
ing panels in 
place 
The simplest form of 
paneling, without 
moldings or rabbeted 
styles and rails, and 
fastened against studs 
Showing the construction of 
paneling in its connection 
with a plaster wall 
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