Identifier: americanhomr03newy (find matches)
Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York, Munn and Co
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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oming mealwafts through the open to the waiting or returning campers,is one of the charms of a hunters life. But it is not alone in these log camps that Natures offer-ings are utilized. The Wyonegonic Camp in Maine, wherehosts of young girls have spent delightful summers fishing,rowing, tramping, riding and botanizing, has the walls ofits club-house built about two fine old trees, taking Naturesbeauties into the home life, as well as going out to meet seats of artistic design built at each side of the fireplace, thelibrary table and chairs, and the books and pictures make acomplete whole, whose charm can not be surpassed in bunga-low interiors. Ella Wheeler Wilcoxs seashore bungalow, on the rockycoast of Long Island Sound, is that of a worker. Everywherethe books of her large and well-selected library are in evi-dence. It is a place to lure a thinker and worker. Yet con-spicuous as is the literary atmosphere within its walls, thereare touches everywhere of the sea and the shore. Fish-
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In the Heart of the Woods them. Seats are built around the ample tree trunks, andferns grow about their roots, while their rough sides higherup afford knots from which hampers and tennis rackets hangin close sympathy with each other. This same ideal camp hasstairs made from the small, round limbs of trees, windingtheir way from the living-room to the floor above. Thesestairs remind one of a corduroy road, and are as strong asthey are picturesque. In a camp in the Woodbridge Hills a beautiful fireplacecut from the solid rock is a special attraction, while swungabove, by means of iron chains, is the half of the trunk of agood-sized elm, which is used as a mantel. Nature and artare combined in this camp—the wrought-iron lanterns, deep nets are used for portieres, decorated above with sea-shellsstrung in ornamental designs. A great horse-shoe crab is alsoprominent as a hall mark of this seashore home, while ham-mocks and easy chairs invite the fortunate guest to stopawhile, within sound

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