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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The Natural Materials at Hand May Be Employed with Good Effect September, 1906 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 169 manifold examples of the finest adaptation of shrubs andtrees to truly scenic screenwork effects, the character of eachgrowth correctly strengthening, barring, or grading, whilethe avenues and walks are bordered and friezed with finetrees standing as compact and straight as Prussian soldierson parade. If you are not limited by cost in laying the bed of yourdrive I would advise the following: Thoroughly underdrainthe road by open joint drain tile, laid underground, or bydeep side gutters. This will keep the roadbed and its founda-tions dry; a most important factor in road building. First,remove all top soil and loose earth, forming the foundations
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There Must Be Ample Room for Vehicles and, if Possible, Separate Paths for Pedestrians to a crown of six inches to each ten feet of road width; layover this a layer, six inches thick, of broken limestone or traprock, of a size to pass through a 3-inch ring; over this againa layer three inches thick of broken limestone or trap rock, ofa size to pass through a 13/2-inch ring; cover the whole withclean limestone screenings, free from dust. Where thebottom is soft it is good practice to roll a thin layer of stone.Crown the surface of the road one and one-half inches foreach foot in width of road. The best packed and hardest rolled road needs carefuldraining if its surface is not soon to be washed away, prob-ably involving the destruction of the bordering grass. Adry sand drain along each side may serve the purpose; better still, a gutter of pebbles, carefully laid on edge and closelypacked together, or a brick gutter, with sides of single rowsof brick slanting toward a third course laid f

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