AMERICAN ESTATES AND GARDENS 



by the very simple device of planting their edges or borders with flowering plants, while 

 the humbler vegetables flourished within and behind them. 



Low flowering plants are used for the lower borders, and higher ones for the upper, 

 a system that perfectly maintains the individuality of the terraces. Had high flowering 

 plants been used on the lower terraces, the individual effect of each would, to a certain 

 extent, have become confused. The system that has been followed gives each terrace its own 

 character, which is further heightened by the development of a careful color scheme, each 

 terrace having a well marked color of its own. Thus, one has a border of red; another is 

 rich in yellow: in a third, purple will be the chief color, while blue and white or other 

 shades are represented in others. All these borders are so laid out that each plant in its 

 season is followed by another variety, so that the entire garden will be in gorgeous bloom 

 the entire summer. 



At the summit, and on the sides, the whole of this great ascending garden is 

 enclosed within a thick forest growth, that frames ' it splendidly and beautifully helps in 

 giving it individuality. It is thus no unrelated spot upon the hillside, but a complete and 

 finished garden, novel in design and arrangement, and yet so completely natural that no 

 other kind of a garden could have been developed here or been so effective. 



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