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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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iswater-threaded country, and adds inestimably to the beautyof the place, to say nothing of its stock of trout. It lies with-in a stones throw of the house, and yet the cut is so pre-cipitous and so flanked with trees that it can be seen from thehouse only as a retreat that must be visited to be known. Where the brook enters the grounds from the street ithas been coaxed into forming a small pond, where an oc-casional azalea, a few elder bushes, a magnificent chestnut,and banks of fern have been left to form the sole ornamenta-tion. The dam that forms the enlargement of the stream isspanned by a foot bridge adorned with a miniature thatchedwatch tower. For the remainder of the way at least the ravine is quiteunspoiled. Some of the hardy rhododendrons have been intro-duced into it to supplement its own laurel, but it is only anaccident that this did not already grow here, as it does inmany a woods near at hand; a little clearing out has been November, 1906 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 311
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Looking Through the Pergola done, but only to allow of comfortable walking; a few rest-ing places have been made at points of special advantage;and the one necessary foot bridge is a simple structure otlogs. Returning across the lawn toward the house, one looksup at a splendid border of rhododendrons, running along twosides of the terrace which is the house site. This is so thickas to make of the veranda, which it shelters, a retiring-roomas secluded as though it were within four walls. On the eastthis terrace opens on a lower level by means of a flight ofsteps, high above which reaches the glorious white and rosemagenta of the rhododendron, massed against a backgroundof rich green arbor vitas that serves to screen the rear of thehouse on this side and the stables. The rhododendrons fromhere border a path that descends on its winding way througha rose arbor dividing an upper from a lower rose garden,beyond which it joins the lower garden walk. This is the main path through the lower p

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