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Identifier: americanhomesgar41907newy (find matches)
Title: American homes and gardens
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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inner border. At one corner of the pool, where thewater enters, is a group of pickerel weed, whose arrow-shaped leaves and blue-spiked flowers form a charming con-trast with the spear-shaped iris at the other end of the flowerbeds; close by, a couple of stones jut out from the surface ofthe water, forming a little spot of shade for the fish onsunny days, and giving a foothold for the chipmunks andbirds when drinking. The pool was made by excavating the ground between twoof the flower beds. A wooden form, about eight inches lessthan the hole, was then placed within, forming a mold forthe concrete, which was held by the hard earth on the outeredge. After the concrete was set the form was removed, andashes and cinders to a depth of five or six inches was spreadover the bottom, which was shaped to incline to the outlet.A layer of rough concrete was finished with a smooth coat ofconcrete about an inch thick, and the top was coped withstone picked up from the adjoining ground and laid with
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A Tea House and Water Basin for the Birds Are the Chief Structural Ornaments of the Sunken Garden the flat side up and the irregular edge toward the center.The semi-circular pergola, the arbor, and the little piecesof garden furniture were made from cedar. As far as pos-sible, therefore, every effort has been made to minimize theartificial effect of a formal garden. The quite unusual aimhas been to create a garden of formal character that shouldharmonize with natural surroundings of rare growth andbeauty. The Summer Home or Mrs. Alice G. Hubbard,Sound Beach, Connecticut The summer home of Mrs. Hubbard, at Sound Beach,Conn., is photographed in the illustrations on page 169.It is a simple and pleasant little structure that cost,when completely finished, $3,530.40. The first story is builtof field stone laid up at random. The columns of the piazzaand the porte-coche are of hardwood supported on bases ofthe same stone. The chimney is also built of field stone. The second and third stories

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