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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar91912newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Painted table and chairs for the informal garden a resting place for an attractive box of gay-colored flowers, which add a contrasting bit of tone. However used, each and every piece is wholly adaptable, and their simplicity of construction is such that they may readily be made by the amateur. All lines are plain and straight, and with the wood used in an unfinished state, the bark is the only finish required. Not only seats and settees, benches, etc., but all manner of ornaments in the way of sun- dials, vases, pergolas, gates, and garden houses, may be made in rustic design, and to even a garden of formal layout they add a touch of quaintness which renders them distinct in the scheme. Sundials, for instance, are found in a great many gardens of to-day. They may be simple or elaborate, old or new, large or small. There is a chance for the greatest individ- uality in choosing them. They may be made from an old tree stump, thus carrying out the rus- tic idea, and add a finishing touch to a rustic garden, or they may be made from the most elaborate marble column. The dial may be carved in the stone in this case, instead of being made of brass. Some of the bases for these dials, which are imported from Italy and Greece, are beautifully carved. They may be tables, fountains, vases, or anything which may be adapted to this purpose. Beau- tiful as well as practical bases are now made in this country, of a material which much resem- bles gray stone. Old models are easily copied in this mate- rial and give most satisfactory results. It is rather a delicate piece of work to set a dial accurately and it should be done by an expert. When it is ordered the state, county and town where it is to be used must be given, otherwise the dial will not be accurate for that particular latitude. It must then be set absolutely flat, and pointing directly to the North Star.
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Garden seats of this sort are increasing in the popularity they deserve and are especially suited for use in formal gardei

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