House &? Garden 
IN THE WINKELHOF {See Page 629) 
appreciating the aid of plant life to archi¬ 
tectural effects, to contrive details of buildings 
to accommodate plants wherever they can be 
a part of the design itself or administer to the 
happiness and delight of those within doors. 
Tyrolese wrought ironwork is a detail which 
would afford 
material for 
volumes, and 
there would 
be no lack of 
examples for 
i I lustration. 
11 is the skill 
of Ger m a n 
smiths, di¬ 
rected fre¬ 
quently upon 
Italian designs 
that is dis¬ 
played in 
elaborate and 
facetious rain¬ 
water spouts 
of iron carried 
far out from 
roofs of build¬ 
1 N THE RATHHAUS, STERZING 
ings by bold brackets and supports of scroll 
work. The inn signs are marvelously rich in 
design, and support lamps bearing the name 
of the hostelry ; or included in their intricate 
forms, are the favorite insignia of a gray bear, 
a rose, a deer’s head or golden stars corre¬ 
sponding to 
the name of 
the hostelry. 
1 n the church¬ 
yards, also, 
can be studied 
some of the 
best examples 
of Tyrolese 
ironwork as it 
is found in 
crosses and 
other objects 
bearing hom¬ 
age to the 
dead. 
1 nternal 1 y 
the buildings 
bear a marked 
difference to 
their exteriors 
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