PRACTICAL BOOK OF GARDEN ARCHITECTURE 



combinations. Alternate layers of long logs lying 

 face out, parallel with the terrace, and logs driven 

 well back into the bank of earth with butt ends rest- 

 ing evenly on the ones below them will form a quaint 

 and durable wall that will prevent washouts and 

 frost injuries and will furnish many earth crevices 

 for the growth of plants all along its surface. 



Where steep roadway terraces and abrupt divi- 

 sions in garden planning can be avoided, a series of 

 low, sloping terraces will always prove more satis- 

 factory than high embankments. When it can be 

 satisfactorily arranged the lawn slope reaching out 

 to a high bank above the garden driveway or public 

 thoroughfare should be well rounded with the green 

 turf, sloping gradually to meet a simple, low wall 

 securely built of stone or brick. The turf that rounds 

 over the top of the wall with trailers dropping 

 down to hide the line of connection will prove more 

 durable than the grassy outline ending just within 

 the wall surface and encouraging rain water and 

 melting snow to run down back of the wall. 



The popular type of dry wall, with stones ir- 

 regularly laid without the use of mortar, will prove 

 both satisfactory and picturesque for the high ter- 

 race. The low one may be suitably walled with 

 mortar-laid stone and prim formal coping for the 

 formal garden, but a certain amount of green 



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