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in masses will rise five or six feet above the top of the bank 

 and thus produce a fringe of summer foliage as well as impart 

 additional shelter to the sunk lawn. The planting at the 

 sides will be of a similar description with double and single 

 furze to give a little evergreen clothing at the edges. 



By the variation of line in the terrace banks, and by 

 having the entire lawn very evenly laid and nicely kept the 

 want of shrubs and flowers .will in some degree be counter- 

 balanced, and there will be scarcely any bare ground for the 

 wind to act upon. In preparing the ground for either grass 

 or planting here it is customary to fix the sand by spreading 

 over it a coating of mud, which is obtained on the seashore 

 and is of a somewhat tenacious or clayey nature. And it is 



Fig. 71. Section through Garden shown in Fig. 70. 



remarkable how such trees as sycamores will contrive to draw 

 support from the mere sand by striking their roots deep and 

 transforming them into a fleshy instead of a woody sub- 

 stance. In removing some old sycamores from a similarly 

 sandy locality several years ago, I found that their roots had 

 entered into the sand to the depth of ten and twelve feet, 

 and that these roots were of a succulent nature and fully 

 half an inch in diameter throughout. 



8. The Town or City Garden. — Another description of 

 place that calls for a brief special notice is the town or city 

 garden which is commonly a narrow strip of land but little if 

 any wider than the house which stands upon it, and varying 

 in depth according to the value of land in the neighborhood 

 or the position of the adjoining roads. For gardens of such 

 a class and shape there can be little question that the most 



