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Title: The livable house, its garden
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Dean, Ruth. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York, Moffat, Yard and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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eending in a grassy slope. In other words, a retaining wall forportions of the grounds near the house or those connected withthe garden is more desirable than a turf bank. A grass terraceis always somewhat indefinite as to ending and somewhat difficultto stop. For naturalistic work, where the terrace may be treatedin an irregular manner and allowed to fade away into the sur-rounding lawn, it is satisfactory enough, but where it is usedarchitecturally and made to conform to a regular outline it isboth stupid and awkward to handle. Further than this, grass ona slope, if it be at all steep, is difficult to maintain and liable toburn out in midsummer. A wall, on the contrary, offers no unpleasant obstacles to main-tenance; it gains additional space for the garden and ofifer§ noend of opportunities for interesting treatment. Unlike the vajgueterminus which the grass slope forms, it provides a definite pointat which to stop the terrace and an opportunity to treat its top with (38) G a d 11
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A P P R O P R 1 A r E MATERIALS FOR THESIZE AND CHARACTER Weld, Garden of Mr. Larz Anderson, Brookline, Massa-chusetts. Charles A. Piatt, Architect (39) The Livable Ho u a balustrade or railing or planting, for some form of copingis desirable to give a finish to the terrace and prevent the falling-off feeling one has in the absence of such a boundary. Unfor-tunately walls are costly of construction and must often for thisreason be supplanted by grass terraces. But wherever it is pos-sible, walls should be given the preference and welcomed asopportunities for adding interest to the garden. The picture ofHuntland would be stupid indeed if the series of dry walls wereto be replaced by grass banks, and a slope of turf would make buta poor background to Mr. Piatts garden in place of the walledterrace with its pleasing iron rail. Good use is made of retaining walls in connection with thehouses designed by Mr. Grosvenor Atterbury at Forest Hills,Long Island. Here each house has but a small d

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