of the room is made up of two narrow panels of the trellis with a fireplace between.  On the opposite wall the middle panel is a background for a delightful wall fountain.  The fretwork of mirrors which takes the place of frieze in the room is continued all around the four walls.  One of the walls is filled entirely with French doors of plate glass, beneath the mirrored frieze; the other long wall has the broad, central panel cut into two doors of plate glass, and stone benches placed against the two trellised panels flanking the doors.  The ceiling is divided into three great panels of trellis, and from each of the three panels a lantern is suspended.

In the Guinness house in New York there is a little hallway wainscoted in white with a green trellis covering the wall space above.  Against this simple trellis—­it is really a lattice—­a number of plaster casts are hung.  In one corner an old marble bowl holds a grapevine, which has been trained over the walls.  The floor is of white tiles, with a narrow Greek border of black and white.  This decoration of a little hall might be copied very easily.

The architects are building nowadays many houses that have a sun-room, or conservatory, or breakfast room.  The smallest cottage may have a little breakfast room done in green and white lattice, with green painted furniture and simple flower boxes.  I have had furniture of the most satisfactory designs made for my trellis rooms.  Green painted wood with cane insets seems most suitable for the small rooms, and the marbles of the old trellised Temples d’Amour may be replaced by cement benches in our modern trellis pavillions.

There is so much of modern furniture that is refreshing in line and color, and adapted to these sun-rooms.  There is a desk made by Aitchen, a notable furniture designer in London, which I have used in a sun-room.  The desk is painted white, and is decorated with heavy lines of dark green.  The drawer front and the doors of the little cupboard are filled with cane.  The knobs are of green.  This desk would be nice in a white writing-room in a summer cottage, though it was planned for a trellis room.  It could be used as a dressing table, with a bench or chair of white, outlined in green, and a good mirror in white and green frame.  Another desk I have made is called a jardiniere table, and was designed for Mrs. Ogden Armour’s garden room at Lake Forest.  The desk, or table, is painted gray, with faint green decorations.  At each end of the long top there is a sunken zinc-lined box to hold growing plants.  Between the flower boxes there is the usual arrangement of the desk outfit, blotter pad, paper rack, ink pots, and so forth.  The spaces beneath the flower boxes are filled with shelves for books and magazines.  This idea is thoroughly practicable for any garden room, and is so simple that it could be constructed by any man who knows how to use tools.

[Illustration:  LOOKING OVER THE TAPIS VERT TO THE TRELLIS]