PROBLEM XIV 



An Old Place on Level Ground — Redesigned, by 



Charles N. Lowrie, Landscape Architect, 



New York City 



This property is located at Columbus, Ohio. Its dimensions 

 are 250 x 400 feet 



IT becomes more and more necessary, as houses 

 crowd closer together in a city, to consider 

 each property as a unit in itself, and to dis- 

 regard all heterogeneous outside objects. To do 

 this satisfactorily it is important to hide the 

 close proximity of neighboring houses. The mak- 

 ing of the boundary is, therefore, very essen- 

 tial. Here, the boundary is doubly fortified. A 

 brick wall is built around three sides of the 

 property with a hedge on the front, for a green 

 hedge forms a much pleasanter boundary along 

 the street than a wall. Inside wall and hedge 

 is a planting of trees and shrubbery which 

 disguises their stiff lines, gives height to the 



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