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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...full of interest and color. Steps from the terrace lead down to narrow strips of ground on the east and west sides of the lawn. The eastern side of the property was originally thought out as the service side of the garden but it is so full of color and flowers that it hardly gives any suggestion of the original intention. A path runs along the whole length to a tool house. It is shut off from the lawn by a hedge and for part of the way it is under the curving grape arbor. It is very simply built, its curve is interesting, and its pointed roof construction gives a rather quaint impression. It is built very low and is set so far below the terrace that in a very few years it has become almost hidden by the maturing trees, shrubbery, and vines. On the side of the arbor is an oddly shaped little piece of ground given to Roses and small fruits. Many kinds of native and bush Roses are planted in a thick mass along the terrace wall. Rosa Blanda, Rosa spinossissima, Persian Yellow Roses, Rosa rubrifolia, Rosa rubiginosa which is the Sweet Brier, Rosa nitida, Rosa lucida, Madam Pantier Roses, and Rosa Carolina, to attempt to give them in their succession of bloom, give a bright tangle of color. Every garden should have Roses for cutting and yet Hybrid Tea and Hybrid Perpetual Roses can hardly be associated with shrubbery. It is difficult to find an appropriate place for them in a garden which is developed in such a naturalistic way as this one. Here, they have been planted in beds with the Gooseberries and Currants. This arrangement gives both Roses and small fruits the space they need for good development. If Roses cannot have the dignity of a separate garden, which is hardly possible in a small place of this kind where intensive use ought to be made of every bit of...

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