LANDSCAPE GARDENING STUDIES 



properly available. Walks are made in the hill- 

 sides, five or six feet or more above the drives, 

 and narrow alleys are sometimes employed to 

 reach a stable at the rear of a lot. It is interesting, 

 however, to observe how completely every inch 

 of ground is managed so as to make it salable in 

 the form of a lot. Heavy cuts and fills occur 

 throughout the roads on this tract, some of the 

 grades being at least ten per cent. The lots 

 themselves have not been changed in contour to 

 any considerable degree, thereby allowing the 

 native trees to stand in large numbers wherever 

 they do not interfere with the construction of the 

 house and lawn in front. Along the borders of 

 the roads is a liberal space of greensward. Shade 

 trees are planted three or four feet from the curb. 

 Around the entrance gate of fine stone work 

 appear great masses of foliage, rare and choice, 

 including many evergreen trees and shrubs which 

 thrive specially well in this climate. Another 

 great advantage which this Glen Wood tract 

 possesses is that its roads are curbed and guttered, 

 macadamized and in some cases asphalted, sew- 

 ered, and lighted with electricity. 



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