218 The Lawn 



foundation easily drained and the material is so 

 clean and pretty that even should a little adhere 

 to the shoes and be carried indoors, it will not be 

 strongly objectionable. 



A house on the hillside creates a splendid oppor- 

 tunity for the landscape gardener. First, the 

 slope must be carefully dealt with and it is to be 

 hoped that every house planned on a hillside can 

 have for treatment at least 15,000 square feet of 

 garden surface. This will permit a fairly wide 

 driveway and an additional footpath, without 

 making either conspicuous. All small plots which 

 are not even should be leveled to the street sur- 

 face, or only a foot or two above, and under no 

 circumstances should a small plot be terraced, or 

 a portion of it raised above the natural level. To 

 do so is to give the plot an effect of even smaller 

 proportions and no part of it will show to advan- 

 tage. Amateur gardeners with overdeveloped 

 ideas are likely to make this mistake in planning 

 a small plot on the hillside. 



When there is a natural slope which would be 

 expensive to level it is a better plan to leave the 

 lawn sloping gently toward the edges instead of 

 terracing a part of it and putting in steps which will 

 only emphasize the lack of space. 



