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APPROPRIATE MATERIALS FOR THE SIZE 



AND CHARACTER 39 



" It' eld." garden of Mr. Larz Anderson, Brookline, Massachusetts 

 Charles A. Piatt, Architect 



A CO.MHINATION OF MANY MATERIALS 



WHICH IS NOT U N P L E A S I N G 41 



Knickerbocker Golf Club, Tenafly, Keic Jersey. Ruth Dean, 

 Landscape Architect 



A GOOD DRY WALL WELL PLANTED . . . . 43 

 "The Knoll," estate of Mr. Ahah Crocker, at Fitchburg, Massachusetts 

 Olmsted Hrothers, Landscape Architects 



A (jOOD flight of STEPS IN A RETAIN- 



I N G W A L L 45 



Forest Hills, Long Island. Gros\enor Atterbury, Architect 



FOUNDATION PLANTING SHOULD TIE THE 



HOUSE IN'l'O ITS SURROUNDINGS. . . 53 

 House of ALs. George N. (lales, at (jreat Neck, l.onij Island. Ayniar 

 Embury 11, Architect 



A N I N 'F ]<: R i: STING C O -M P> I N A 'F 1 O N O F 



_M ATE RIALS 55 



Garden of R. H. Ward, Ls'i.. at New Rochelle, K eie York. 'Hiomas 

 W. Sears, Landscape Architect 



RHODODENDRONS ARE HE ST COMBINED 



WITH OTHER KINDS OF PLANTS . . . 57 



Forest Hills Gardens. Forest HilL. Lonij Island. (Mmsted Hrothers, 

 Landscape .hchilccts 



CEDARS USED PROPERL\ NEAR A HOUSE 



WALL . . 59 



House of Mr. \N. \\. Seeley, Bridgeport, Connecticut. Murpliy and 

 Dana, .Irchitecis 



AN EXCEPTION TO THE R I L E OF NO 

 FLOWERS ABOUT THE HOUSE 



FOUNDATION 61 



Garden of Mrs. J. Clifton Edgar, at Greenwich, Connecticut. Marian 

 C. Coffin, Landscape Architect 



P L A N 'F A POND \V I T H THOSE TREES AND 

 SHRUBS WHICH GROW NATURALLY 

 NEAR WATER . . . . . . 63 



"Gravetxe," estate of William Robinson, Esq.. at Kingscote, Sussex, 

 England. Courtesy of Mr. Thomas W. Sears 



THE CORNERS OF FLO^VER BEDS ARE HERE 



REINFORCED BY SHRUBS 65 



Garden of Charles A. Piatt, Architect, at Cornish, 'Sew Hampshire 



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