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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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details, moldings and feeling.What could be more horrible than the Strozzi lanterns strad-dling, bald and naked, over the woodwork of a Colonialpost? Heavy stone or iron work should never be superposedon woodwork. What would have happened to the worldhad Atlas shoulders been of sawdust? Wooden gates maybe supported by stone or brick posts, because the posts are thepoints demanding strength, in reality as well as in feeling.They are the points dappui. Even then, the woodwork and gilded fence can bear comparison with a thick hedge ofunbroken yew or an avenue of pine or beech trees. No gate-way can inclose or open into a place with the magnificentspread of a well-chosen and banked mass of properly selectedtrees and shrubs. Who would, for a moment, compare theentrance-gates of the Giusti Gardens to the entrance of thesecond garden level, through the majestic portal of laurel,myrtle, cypress and olive? In our American country estates,as well as in our parks and public playgrounds, we have
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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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  • bookid:americanhomr03newy
  • bookyear:1905
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Architecture__Domestic
  • booksubject:Landscape_gardening
  • bookpublisher:New_York__Munn_and_Co
  • bookcontributor:The_LuEsther_T_Mertz_Library__the_New_York_Botanical_Garden
  • booksponsor:BHL_SIL_FEDLINK
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  • bookcollection:NY_Botanical_Garden
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