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MR, O D, MUNNS TERRACE GARDEN, ORANGE. N 



Landscape Gardening. 



MR. O. D. MUNN'S TERRACE GARDEN. 



This terrace garden is on a sunny slope 

 of the Orange Mountains, near to Eagle 

 Kock. which is 625 feet above sea level, 

 and from it one gets a splendid view of 

 New York City, the harbor, and sur- 

 rounding country. The woods in the 

 background are on the summit of the hill 

 and consist of natural growth of oak, 

 beech, hickory, etc., and form an excellent 

 protection to the garden in front from the 

 northwest winds. 



The steepness of the hillside on which 

 the terrace garden is made is ten inches in 

 three feet. The soil is clavcv loam with 



shallow clay subsoil resting on trap rock. 

 There are eight terraces, with eight flights 

 of steps, but the lowermost terrace is not 

 shown in the picture. The average width 

 of each terrace is 25 feet and length from 

 end to end 200 feet. The height of the 

 banks is about 10 feet each, and they 

 have a slope of about 60". The banks are 

 faced with grass, the grass lapping over 

 a little on the level both at top and bot- 

 tom. To begin with they were sodded, 

 the sods being staked in place till they 

 took firm hold in the ground. There is 

 very little trouble from washing and rut- 

 ting by heavy rains because at the top of 

 the garden is a ditch and drains running 

 to right and left that carry away all the 

 surface overflow from above. Notwith- 

 standing the breadth of terraces the grass 

 doesn't bum out in summer nearas much 

 as one might imagine, and this is largely 



due to the fact that it is not kept closely 

 shaved by the mower; on account of the 

 steepness of the grade scythes are em- 

 ployed instead of mowing machines, and 

 the grass is not cut as often or as short as 

 it would be were machines used. This 

 always leaves a few inches of grass to 

 protect the sod, and when it is combed 

 down with the rake it looks ver>- well. 

 The same helps to protect it in winter. 



The soil of the terraces is made soil, 

 that is it is good loam carted on there. 

 The walks are all macadamized and edged 

 with box. 



The geometrical flower garden seen in 

 the picture is filled with ordinary summer 

 bedding plants as geraniums, coleus, 

 petunias, alyssum andthelikc. One of the 

 lower terraces is filled with cannas, peren- 

 nial sunflowers, and other large and mis- 

 cellaneous hardy border plants. In the 



