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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar11905newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
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302 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS November, 1905 notwithstanding the fact that a person standing on the garden terrace can discern the outer roadway beyond the bounding fence. That the entrance front stands somewhat close to its nearest road has necessitated clever arrangements without, and this has been done in an exceedingly happy way. Im- mediately beyond the porte-cochere is a fountain playing into a large basin. This is surrounded with a screen consisting of semicircular niches or recesses, each containing a marble Hermes, and evergreens. This screen is continued on each side of the fountain along the full face of the garden front, with a series of latticed arches similarly connected with trees. There is, therefore, a solid screen of greenery here which effectively protects the whole of the entrance driveway from without. Nor does the protection end here; for the space behind the screen is also subjected to formal treatment, with semicircles of evergreens and with grouping of other trees, so that, when fully grown, all this side of the house will be within a double line of trees and vines, abso- lutely shutting out any hint of the adjoining street. The floral planting here consists chiefly of two immense beds of cannas, salvias, coleuses and other plants arranged in formal patterns. The base of the house wall is planted with ever- greens, rhododendrons and other hardy plants. The garden front is completely dominated, as has been stated, by the splendid architecture of the house. The garden treatment itself, however, is worthy of note. The lake occupies the foreground immediately below the terrace. It is planted with water lilies and other aquatic plants, and is surrounded with trees and foliage and blooming plants, giving charming notes of color to all its border. At each end of the terrace is a special flower garden; on one side it is planted chiefly with annuals and other gaily blooming plants, on the other is a rose garden bordered with annuals in bril- liant color. A tennis court is close at hand. And then around and beyond these garden spots are trees, large trees, beautiful trees, trees giving ample shade, yet by no means blocking the view in any direction, although so large is the area and so beautifully fine the trees that one catches but stray glimpses of the outer world. But one does not need to see much without here, for there is so much within, and that within has been made so much of that more than is here seems unnecessary. No gentleman's country house is complete without its stable. The house grounds of Mr. Guggenheim contain no space for this necessary appendage, and it is, perforce, located across the street in a near-by spot. The stable sets well back from the highway, and the drive down to it is lined, on each side, with a vegetable garden, beautifully planted in squares and rectangular plots separated and surrounded by privet hedges. A very useful end is thus obtained in a quite decorative manner. As for the stable itself, it is needless to add that it is equipped in the most complete manner. The entrance, or washroom, is floored with cement. On one side
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