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House & Garden's 



This garden, on lite place of Dr. and 

 Mrs. J. Clifton Edgar, al Greenwich, 

 Conn., was built in a typical Con- 

 necticut outcrop of rock. Conse- 

 quently the steps were kepi rugged 



Where there is a slight rise in the 

 garden, the point can be accented by 

 shallow, flat stones set into the turf, 

 as in the garden of Mr. and Mrs. 

 J. Henry Alexander, at Roslyn, L. I. 



STEPS IN THE GARDEN 



MARIAN C. COFFIN, Landscape Architect 



.1 garden of varying levels is naturally marked 

 hy stone or brick retaining walls broken at 

 convenient intervals hy steps. These steps 

 can be of stone or brick or cement. They 

 should be hidden fairly well by flowers and 

 vines. Here, in the garden of Mr. and Mrs. 

 Bertram Borden at Oceanic, N. J., polyantha 

 roses grow over the wall, foxgloves in the 

 lower garden and anchu.'ias in the upper 



