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frosts of late autumn compel him to seek interior shelter. 
To furnish a veranda to the best advantage for liv- 
ing purposes, furniture should be used that can with- 
stand tke weather and hard usage. Numerous easy chairs, 
a settee furnished with crash or denim covered with cush 
ions, and hammocks are essential, and a swinging couch 
is an addition that is sure to be greatly appreciated. 
Wicker is undoubtedly the most popular porch furniture 
at the present time, and it deserves to be, for it com- 
bines in construction the desirable qualities of coolness, 
light weight, and durability, and then, too, it is equally 
attractive in its natural light coloring or when stained 
a soft green, or some other tint. Chairs of almost every 
shape as well as settees and swinging hammocks can be 
purchased in wicker, and tables of this material are also 
easily obtained. 
The tea-wagon is a useful bit of furniture to install 
in the outdoor living-room, and it has been considerably 
improved of late. An attractive model is siinply a wick- 
er table with the top sunk in to hold cups and saucers, 
and fitted at one side with a handle and mounted on 
two wheels. It is generally accompanied by a wicker 
stand equipped with three shelves placed one below. 
the other, which proves convenient to hold plates of 
cake or other dainties generally served with afternoon 
tea. 
The best rugs for the porch are the natural-hued 
grass or hand-woven rag-carpet rugs, which are unin- 
jured by either rain or sun. Indeed, either of these ele- 
ments rather improves them, for they but take on softer 
tones than come with the fading or bleaching process. 
When the veranda is completely furnished, florists 
are frequently employed to give fragrant finishing 
touches, for flowers have come to play an important part 
in the decoration of the outdoor living-room. Some- 
times boxes are ensconced about the veranda edge plant- 
VERANDA OF THE GARDINER M. LANE HOUSE, MANCHESTER 
COZY PORCH AT THE EZRA C. FITCH HOUSE 
NORTON’S POINT, MANCHESTER 
ed with flowers of one color, or a combination of red 
and white, pink and white, etc., or they are filled with 
sweet old-fashioned blossoms that resemble a bit of 
grandmother’s flower plot transplanted from its old-time 
bed. Again soft, blue Japanese crocks filled with hy- 
drangeas decorate the spaces between the room sup- 
ports, and are also frequently used to ornament the en- 
trance steps. If the veranda has a rail over which 
vines have been trained to clamber, hanging baskets 
arranged above are attractive. They are prettiest when 
covered with natural colored rattan, and as they are 
fitted with a drainage, numerous flowers thrive well in 
them, notably, nastur- 
tiums. 
As to the vines which 
may be employed to dec- 
orate the veranda there is 
an almost limitless supply 
to select from. The crim- 
son rambler rose is easily 
grown as is the Virgins 
Lower vine, which has a 
long season of bloom dur- 
ing which time it presents 
a bank of snowy star- 
shaped fiowers of delight- 
ful fragrance. The ele- 
matis is anoti.er good vine 
and is especially attrae- 
{ive when used ia conjunc- 
tion with the coceimea. 
The snow white blooms 
of the former contrast ad- 
mirably with the rose-coi- 
ored blossoms of the lat- 
ter, which resemble halt- 
closed rosebuds at a dis- 
tance. Then there are the 
Virginia creeper vine, the 
honeysuckle, wistaria, and 
any number of others all 
finely suited to employ in 
the floral decoration of the 
veranda, 
