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and so would be useful when there are large gather- 

 ings. It may serve also as a place on which to 

 exhibit special plants, generally those which are not 

 hardy and must be kept in a greenhouse or a con- 

 servatory during the winter. A terrace is usually 

 a favorable spot from which to observe the land- 

 scape and, if it were shaded from the afternoon 

 sun, might in summer serve all the purposes of a 

 living-room. If a house is located upon a side hill 

 a terrace may very properly be carried out from the 

 end of the building when its length is parallel to the 

 contours of the hill. In this situation a terrace 

 would give room for comfortable circulation which 

 would not be provided by the ground itself. When, 

 however, the ground is nearly level and the house 

 is set low, there may be no occasion for building 

 any terrace. 



(b) If the house is on a side hill and located as 

 suggested in (a), a terrace at its side would very 

 likely cut off the view of the valley below, which 

 would be of far more interest than the terrace itself 

 to the persons looking from the windows. 



(c) Occasionally a terrace may give to a house 

 better proportions. Care should be taken, however, 

 to avoid cutting off a view of the house as seen from 



