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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar81911newy (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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August, 1911 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 283
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this room available for use as a sun-parlor in winter, are re- moved in the summer season, when it has all the value of a covered, yet outdoor palm room. The whole of the three outer sides of the house is sup- ported by a white limestone balustraded terrace. This is seen at its best immediately without the loggia, where its surface area has been greatly extended. It is paved with brick laid on edge, and has large grass plots, and borders of flowers—chiefly roses—located just within and below the balustrade. Beyond and at a lower level, is the sunken formal garden. The main axis of this is at right angles to that of the house. On the east end is the pergola, semi-circular in form, the farther or outer boundary being curved and en- closed below with a stone wall. There is a built-in seat all around, and in the center of the open space is an Italian The living-room table of carved white marble. The outer side of the pergola is thickly planted with shrubbery and flowers, and is the beginning of the floral de- velopment of the garden. At the opposite end is a great spring - fed pond, enclosed to- wards the garden by a stone wall and stone balustrade, and reached by a central flight of steps with a section of a semi- circular wall on either side. The opposite side of the pond is left without formal en- closure, but the water there is

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