THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES 

 TERRACES 



Many gardens have to be built on a hill- 

 side, and none could be more attractive 

 than when it is made to fit the sloping 

 ground by the aid of terrace walls. A 

 garden made on different levels has a great 

 advantage over one laid out on a flat sur- 

 face, for it presents so many different points 

 of view from which one may see it up and 

 down and in various charming perspectives. 

 In such a garden terrace walls and flights 

 of steps are a necessity, but they are often 

 poorly imitated by having steep grass 

 slopes in place of the walls. These awk- 

 ward banks can have but one excuse for 

 being : they are less expensive to build 

 than retaining walls ; but their cost for 

 repair and labor in cutting the grass is a 

 thousand times more. It is safe to say 

 that no real lover of gardens would toler- 

 ate such a waste of good gardening space, 

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