AMERICAN ESTATES AND GARDENS 



evergreens, shrubs, and brilliantly flowering annuals. In the middle of the central path is 

 a richly carved well head, and at its end a trellised arbor. And all around the garden, completely 

 shutting it in r rom the outer world, so completely, in fact, that no hint is given of the street 

 immediately without and below, are trees, great forest trees, of magnificent height and 

 a curtain wall of luscious green, at once impenetrable and lovely, adding to the beauty of 

 spot and giving it unexpected charm and mystery. 



A Terraced Garden. 



The terraced garden is the natural garden of the mountain side. It may, indeed, lie 

 considered a type quite apart by itself, since a garden seems instinctively to l>elong to level 

 ground, and one built tier above tier is so rare as to be exceptional. This very unusual 

 garden is, however, beautifully illustrated in the estate of Mr. O. D. Munn, at Llewellyn Park, 

 Orange, New Jersey. The mountain side rising behind the house has been converted into 

 terraces, leveled and faced with grass, and laid out in pleasing variety. 



Yet in this garden, as in many other successful gardens, the natural configuration of 

 the land forms the basis of the floral ornamentation. 

 The house stands against a slope of the Orange 

 Mountain, which rises to a considerable height 

 above it. This at once determines the garden and 

 its special forms. The hillside must, indeed, be left 

 bare, or subjected to ornamental treatment, and 

 ornamental treatment both demands and necessi- 

 tates the terrace as its leading feature, if it does 

 not preclude the use of everything else. 



This, however, amounts to no limitation what- 

 ever in the hands of capable garden designers; on 

 the contrary, the very idea, is so novel and so 

 interesting that an additional zest is given to the 

 solution of a problem that is especially fascinating 

 through its very difficulty. And the creation of 

 a garden whose chief feature is to be a series of 

 terraces, ranged one above the other, involves 

 difficulties of arrangement and disposition which 

 will not be apparent at the first conception of the 

 idea. Shall the terraces be treated alike, rising in 

 tier above tier in solemn succession of identical 

 forms? Shall they be wholly ornamental, or will 

 it be possible to put some of them, at least, to 



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