Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-04-15 | Page 13 | Garden Nook Adds to Joys of Back Yard

Garden Nook Adds to Joys Of Back BackYard Yard By MAUD CHEGWIDDEN Telegram Garden Editor r rIn In all except the very tiniest back garden a summer house will prove a a delightful addition to the joys of outdoor living in warm weather Since it will be too late to make It when summer has arrived Cor or too late for it to be of pf service you should begin at once to smile sweetly sweet sweet- ly at the good man of the family to cook his favorite dishes for dinner dinner din din- ner and to talk about summer summerhouses summerhouses summerhouses houses at all times Such a building whether it be elaborately conceived of brick or stone or merely made of scrap p lumber and wire mesh will be used every day by some somo member of the family for many months each year year Hand Handy Extra Room There you will sit and talk to guests or play cards or serve food tood anything from the family breakfast breakfast breakfast break break- fast to the casual glass of ot lemonade or or do the darning or shell peas or put the baby to sleep sleep sleep-or or a thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand and one other things A solid floor noor to this arbor will be almost a necessity since rain will blow in during some of our summer summer summer sum sum- mer storms but cement is not too costly and may be mixed by the amateur Given a form of boards on the four sides and a mixture mixture mix mix- ture turo of one part Portland cement to about seven parts small gravel and you have a a. base to your summer summerhouse summerhouse summerhouse house that will serve excellently Of course this may be improved In many ways The cement could be laid to simulate flag stones colored col cot ored or a brick floor Ioor might be made with a little extra work Even a wooden floor is not to be despised Heres Here's Simple Plan PlanA A very simple arbor can be made Dade by using two-by-fours two as uprights and by latticing all the sides just leaving an open doorway Lattice is sold by tho hundred and is surprisingly surprisingly sur sur- cheap It takes paint easily and three coats of paint wil wilt serve fo for years in fact the vines you will use to shade the arbor wil will soon cover it ft so thickly that rarely is it possible to paint it again Lattice may be nailed to the uprights uprights uprights up up- rights in as intricate a a. pattern as you can devise but there is a terrible terrible terri tern ble blo temptation if you spend lots Iou of time and thought and Ingenuity in making a a. fine lattice pattern to leave the results results' of your labor for tor all to admire and admire and not to permit it to be hidden by plants Such an arbor defeats its own purpose of existence Use Plain Pattern It is far better to adopt a simple pattern nailing the lattice horizon horizon- I tally leaving twice the tho width of a lattice between each one This makes a good finished summer summerhouse summerhouse house which is not too open and yet which takes less material than when the usual space of one width is left between each cacho A tight roof root of course will be needed if it you want to get the most use from your garden house Even this need not be beyond the powers of any handy man or woman to make Elaborate gables are not called for for for-a a roof that is almost flat with just enough slope to shed melting melling snows mows or rain serves erves the purpose In time your vines will climb up and make billows of green green- cry eron on the roof root