THE TERRACE 



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always somewhat straggling and unkempt in their habit 

 during a large part of late summer and autumn, and 

 would seem as much out of place on a terrace as they 

 would set here and there in pots on the piazza. Indeed, 

 the terrace has most of the peculiarities of the veranda, 

 the same simplicity of outline, the same open, severe 

 effect, whereby it affords a more extended and dignified 

 base for the house, and gives it a more permanent and 

 restful appearance. When we see a house reposing on 



BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF A TERRACE ON CREST OF HILL, WITH BACKGROUND 

 OF WOODS 



broad terraces rising from one level to another, we feel 

 the building has come to stay, in defiance of wind and 

 weather and decaying effects of time, for are not its 

 foundations broad and set deep in the earth? And here, 

 again, we feel the necessity of fitting our terraces to 

 the peculiar and special contour of the ground on which 

 they are to be built. 



Terraces need not be, and seldom should be, simply 

 staircases. Their function is rather the broadening 

 and varying the effect of the veranda, and giving the 



