182 HOW TO PLAN THE HOME GROUNDS 



— 1 940 ft 



LONGITUDINAL SECTION OP ALBE 



is taken to fill in foliage by planting kinds that harmo- 

 nize with the landscape of the region. 



The sites of the houses are carefully selected, so as to 

 get the best views, and several of them have been built 

 and sold by the company controlling the park, so as to 

 set the style of a high and suitable grade of architecture. 

 The treatment of one piece of reserved land deserves 

 special attention, where a bowl, or hollow, has been made 

 by the course chosen for the road. A few small oak 

 trees stand here, but the beauty of the spot has been 

 specially improved by an undergrowth of vines and creeping 

 evergreen plants, and the introduction of a noteworthy 

 collection of the splendid native American azaleas : azalea 

 calendulacea, azalea vaseyii, and azalea viscosa, some of 

 which glow in May and June vrith the most splendid tints of 

 orange and red. On the park reservations rustic seats 

 and summer-houses are introduced, viith all the appur- 

 tenances for different games : tennis, golf, croquet, etc. 



This entire territory is a particularly difficult place to 

 treat, and yet every spot has always its o^^^l special 

 difficulties to meet, whether it be of drainage, sites for 

 the houses, direction of roads, on account of grades, 

 or subdivision of lots. 



