PROBLEM III 



AN INFORMAL ARRANGEMENT OF A WOODED PROPERTY, BY 



E. GORTON DAVIS, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT, 



CORNELL UNIVERSITY, ITHACA, N. Y. 



This property is located at Ithaca, N. Y. The main prop- 

 erty is no x 136 feet. The "outside" garden is 

 go x no feet 



OPEN expanses of ornamented lawns which ex- 

 pose the full view of the house to every 

 passer-by are of a past day in garden art. Vine- 

 covered walls and fences, hedges, shrubbery 

 borders, and slopes clothed with trailers and re- 

 cumbent shrubs form the boundaries that are 

 helping to make the attractive streets of to- 

 day. Bare and uninterrupted views of houses 

 are now replaced by pleasing impressions caught 

 over hedges and through shrubbery. These en- 

 closing frames make one comprehend the meaning 

 of the English wall and hedge bounded gardens 

 and appreciate the desirability of the privacy thus 

 attained. The street boundary is not to be 



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