Identifier: americanhomesgar41907newy (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: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Everywhere in southern California these modest homesare seen; in the heart of Los Angeles, in the suburbs, incountry towns, everywhere roses of some kind bloom theyear around. I recall one home built by an invalid in thesuburbs of a small town not far from Los Angeles. Thisman had two hundred dollars with which to build. He putup a simple rough board frame house, box-shaped, dividedinto three rooms—a living-room, bedroom and kitchen. Itwas a crude affair on the sun-burned mesa, about as unattrac-tive a place as one would care to look at. All the moneyseemed to have been expended in the house; in any event, the
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A Pasadena House Covered with Alfred Carriere Roses dignified by a coat of paint, but over them is drawn this win-ter canopy of ineffable beauty transforming them into bowersof color. You see them everywhere. Great clusters of white rosesnod over the fence or cover an unsightly woodshed; roseswhich if they could be placed on the corner of Fifth Avenueand Twenty-third Street, New York, in the hands of flowervenders would sell for more than the value of the building.It is not necessary for the man of moderate means to buildan elaborate house, or even paint it if he will but considerthe rose as a factor; the money that he might expend in paintbecomes much more effective in water, which in liberal quan-tities about the roots of roses, paints the humble home inmarvelous tints and produces an effect at once artistic andbeautiful, one that might well excite the envy of the wealthydweller in lands where the bloom of the rose is not constant. builder made no attempt to paint it; instead, he ra

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