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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar61909newy (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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-Rough stone steps covered with masses of growing vines lead from the middle garden to the entrance to the house this part of the grounds that was graded into terraces to give an effective setting to the house above. There is one long border, with the garden path between a cor- responding space on the other side for the vegetable garden, and the center space divided into the upper ter- race, the rose garden and the lower terrace. On either side of the rose garden is a long line of lilacs, while at the lower end are dwarf crabs and other flowering trees. At each corner are large tri- angular beds filled with per- ennials. In order to blend the for- mality of the house and the upper garden with the natural scenery the lower garden is treated less archi- tecturally, and has only two concrete seats on the upper terrace, a sun-dial in the rose garden and a hooded gate at the end of the garden path. The house (Figs. 13, 14 and 15) of Mr. A. B. Con- nolly, at Forest Hills, Long Island, is built of fieldstone and brick. The piazza has concrete columns. The roof
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9—The livmg-room has an open fireplace with Grueby tile facings of dull green color

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v.6(1909)
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  • bookid:americanhomesgar61909newy
  • bookyear:1905
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Architecture_Domestic
  • booksubject:Landscape_gardening
  • bookpublisher:New_York_Munn_and_Co
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
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  • bookleafnumber:214
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