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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar51908newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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102 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS March, 1908 the possession of a hanging garden may not sound like an Arabian Night's dream and when indeed the name Roof Garden will no longer carry associations merely of music- hall and vaudeville but will imply a place of pleasaunce for home-loving, quiet people alive at last to the joys of sunshine and the out-of-doors. II.—A Successful House-top Garden By Adelia Belle Beard In Seattle, the city of enthusiasm and progress, there is a house-top garden, a garden on a roof. A real garden with flowers and plants growing in earth beds and a lawn of soft grass in the midst of which stands the hall mark of the garden lover—a sun dial. It is just such a garden as one might have on the ground, only prettier in a way, and decidedly more novel, for the very difficulties to be overcome in planning a garden of this kind result in schemes of arrange- ment one would otherwise never think of. This house-top garden, although on the roof of the "Lincoln," one of Seat- tle's best hotels, is like the grounds of a private residence. There is nothing stiff, nothing stereotyped, for it was not planned by a professional for a public roof garden, but by a woman who conceived and carried out the idea because of her great love for flowers. Her home was to be a large hotel without grounds or verandas; with no place where one could sit out in the fresh air to read or sew, and her idea was to make a garden that could be enjoyed without one's realizing that it was on a house-top. With the help of her two gardeners, Mrs. Blackwell, part owner and manager of the "Lincoln," created this country garden in the midst of a hustling city far above the rush and noise of the busy streets. Up where the air is purest and the sunshine brightest, in this veritable hanging garden her flowers blossom and her fruit ripens. Yes, fruit, for there are trees in the garden, the tallest of which are the mountain ash and the birch. These are twelve feet high, and one very small apple tree bears enormously large apples. There are six or eight maple trees, six holly, four hawthorn, a few evergreens, two laburnums and sev- eral Arabia trees. Then there are large shrubs like the lilac, and roses, quantities of roses, three hundred or more bushes. Many of them are of the kind that can be grown only in hothouses in the vicinity of New York. There are a thousand pansy plants in a bed a hundred feet long, there are sixty dahlias, a
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