Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar71910newy (find matches)
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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May, 1910 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 209 that of having the living quarters directly on the street, for it leaves no breadth of space that may be treated as one un- broken whole. However, to recommend but one lay out for grounds that shall suit any house and lot would be but a fool's trick. Conditions may require the house to be on the rear of the lot, with the garden in front, or on the front, with the garden at the back. The arrangement of the neighbor's grounds and the outlook will determine this. In any case, the grounds should be of an intimate sort, and as comfortable and retired as a room of the house. In the particular case discussed in this article, most of the lot which was not occupied by the house was laid out as a garden, and privacy attained by surrounding the garden with a brick wall of an average height of seven feet. Thus the land showed a difference of grade of two feet six inches that sloped from the western boundary to- wards the house. The scheme was to make the main garden, which is in view of the dining-room, as nearly level as possible, and to take advantage of the slope to make a terrace at the farthest side, and on this terrace to have a small summer-house against the wall. The level of the terrace is but two feet above that of the rest of the gar- den—just enough to make an interesting background, and to give a higher level, from which one may look down on the flower-beds and other features. When arranging the grounds of any suburban home, one must not loose sight of the fact that the winter aspect is as important as the appearance of the place in summer.
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