Show FLOWER PLANTS AND BEER Growing Popularity of the Summer Garden in Gotlmm Summer gardens have grown in popularity popu-larity in this city within the past few years as New Yorkers have come to realize real-ize the advantage of their own city as a summer resort These gardens have been placed on the roofs of theatres and also on the roofs of not a few private houses There are two private houses building on West End avenue now with roofs constructed con-structed for summer gardens They are way above the street and the owners of I these houses expect that they will be very popular with their friends during the I warm weather Restaurants have been opened on the roofs of some of the tall I down town buildings and their popularity has been demonstrated Where the roofs have not been adopted to such a purpose the yards back of the houses have been fitted up as dining pavilions Many of the clubs row have such summer sum-mer gardens They are covered with an awning equipped with electric lights and decorated as taste may direct One of the youngest and most prosperous clubs in this town which is located in an old house in Clinton place has added to it a summer garden that is already beginning begin-ning to bloom An awning has been stretched over a wart of the yard and under that dinners will be served The rest of the yard has been carefully sodded tad the necessary touch of color is added bv flowering plants from the farm of a Jersey poet There are worse things than spending the summer in New York New York Sun |