PROBLEM V 



The Planting of an Approach and Drive Turn, 



BY Olmsted Brothers, Landscape Architects, 



Brookline, Mass. 



This property is located at Chestnut Hill, Pa. 



XTS7"HILE this house is a large country home 

 " " with very interesting terraces and gar- 

 dens, its approach and drive turn can be appro- 

 priately considered in the planting of a small 

 place. The house is suggestive of the large Eng- 

 lish houses with its long irregular plan, its series 

 of muUioned windows, and its many-gabled roof. 



All along its front, following the curving line of 

 the drive, there is a hedging of clipped Box and 

 a few tall undipped Box bushes are grouped in a 

 windowless corner. Such uniformity in the plant- 

 ing along the house walls manifests reserve but 

 it is necessary to accompany it by planting which 

 will relieve its regularity. So, Honeysuckle, Ivy, 

 and Euonymus are creeping up the stucco walls, 



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