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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar91912newy (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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198 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS June, 191 2
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The entrance doorway e reception-room the road in the midst of its spacious and beautiful grounds, ant country place have an unusual opportunity for planning The broad driveway terminates before the entrance front complete and spacious grounds, giving to each department in the large space provided for the convenience of arriving of the estate the consideration and space which it demands. and departing motorists, and this graveled space is sur- A picturesque method of arranging the road frontage of a rounded by a tall trimmed hedge of privet. The service large country home would be to build a tall fence—perhaps quarters, placed as they are at one end of the house, are of wire netting—upon strong cedar posts. Such climbing reached by their own driveway and entrance so that by far plants as Woodbine and the hop vine might be planted the greater part of the house is surrounded by the broad thickly below the fence and their growth during a single lawns which are spread out upon all sides. The casement season would screen the wire netting from view. With this windows of the living-room open into a terrace and also wall of solid green as a background there might be planted upon a veranda, paved with brick and surrounded by bay a profusion of such shrubs as Sumac, Elderberry and Jap- trees, vines, shrubbery and the other accessories which con- anese Maple, with occasionally a flowering shrub such as tribute so greatly to the comfort and beauty of such spots. Lilac, Snowball or the plant sometimes known as Burning An extensive and very beautiful formal garden has here Bush. All this tall growing shrubbery would effectually been planned and built and careful cultivation has already screen the grounds and render the roadway past the estate produced unusually successful results, for most gardens, dur- particularly attractive. ing their first few years, are interesting chiefly by reason The entrance to an extensive country estate may be very of their promises of beauty and floral luxury to be achieved dignified and should correspond in style with the architec- at a later day when nature has had time to co-operate ture of the residence and the other buildings upon the place, with the art supplied by the landscape gardener's magic Gate lodges are considered appropriate only where the and skill. dwelling-house is far from the roadside, and where this Here the garden is surrounded by a clipped hedge and treatment cannot be had tall piers may be placed at either grass walks divide flower beds of square and oblong shapes, side of the entrance and a gate of wrought iron hung be- The beds are filled with all the old fashioned flowers which tween them. Sometimes four such piers may be used where have at last triumphed over any showy superficialities and it is desired to have smaller gateways at either side of the have returned to their own in American gardens. Arches entrance used for vehicles, and often the piers may be con- are being made of privet which will mark the entrance nected by archways if a very formal and dignified effect be to the garden, and of climbing roses which are being in- duced to mount wire frames or wooden trellises. Stone benches and other garden adornments are placed at the sides or ends of the wide grass paths. Just outside the gar- den hedge are massed shrubbery and various kinds of flowering plants and beyond the barn stretches away into heavier under- growth and wooded tracts still farther away. The architects of a large and import-

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