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ATTRACTIVE GARDEN STAIRWAYS 



CLEVER DESIGNS FOR CLIMBING TERRACES 

 AND FOR SECURING PICTORIAL VIEW- 

 POINTS IN OUTDOOR LIVING ROOMS 



DID you ever stop to think that the principal 

 charm of sunken gardens, which are rapidly gaining 

 popularity, lies in our ability to study the flowers 

 and garden furnishings from an unusual view-point ! 

 Looking down, over, and into the garden discloses 

 varied beauties and fascinations that are seldom vis- 

 ible when the garden is studied from its usual flat 

 levels. The famous terraces of the old Roman and 

 Alban hill gardens are supposed to have been cut 

 and graded chiefly for the purpose of preventing 

 washouts on the steep slopes; but a closer study 

 into the work of the old masters in garden building, 

 who constructed these terraces, discloses the fact 

 that their utilitarian purposes were not the only 

 reason for their careful construction. The numer- 

 ous broad, level terraces were ingeniously continued 

 to form pictorial features of the gardens. Looking 

 up from the lower levels into the overhanging beauty 

 of flowers and trailers on the succession of terraces, 



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