Terraces and Shrubs 



circular driveway to allow the house to be 

 easily reached from both ends of the town, 

 but it would be better if the front door 

 were only accessible from the north to 

 carriages, which would give us an un- 

 broken stretch of grass on the east and 

 south, whereas now there is a half-moon 

 of greensward in front, inclosed between 

 the driveway and the street, thickly 

 planted with trees, destined soon to form 

 an effectual screen betwen us and the 

 dusty road. 



South of the house, near the highway, We 

 the ground slopes gently into the swale, L^ 

 which, with its groups of trees, forms a 

 side lawn of uneven surface, bounded at 

 the rear by the hill, with its rising tiers 

 of little Pines. Near the dwelling, how- 

 ever, in order to get any greensward or 

 shade at all, we were forced to build, 

 of stones and gravel, a terrace some 

 twenty-five feet in width at its narrowest 

 part, to support which about two hundred 

 feet or more of massive wall were con- 

 structed. This wall is low in front, and 

 buries itself in the grassy slope, but where 

 it curves around the knoll at the rear, it 

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