LANDSCAPE GARDENING STUDIES 



a well-drained and fertile soil for this garden, it 

 was found necessary to raise the level with many 

 thousands of cubic yards of ordinary earth to 

 overcome the ill effects of the underlying marsh 

 land on which the garden is built. Sufficient 

 agricultural tile drainage was used to prevent the 

 undue accumulation of water from any source. 

 Over this tile drainage was spread a layer, about 

 one foot and a half thick, of rich garden mold 

 containing well-balanced amounts of the necessary 

 constituents of fertile soil, sand, clay, lime, and 

 humus. 



The lawns were sown, not sodded. The bor- 

 ders of the walks were sodded at least a foot wide 

 and the walks themselves were made with rubble 

 foundations and trap-rock screenings. Instead of 

 balustrades or rails, the borders of the entrances 

 to the bridges and the steps of this garden are 

 guarded by means of rock-work contrived to re- 

 semble nature, the rocks peering out here and 

 there from the earth, with vines and low shrubs 

 and birches intermingled. 



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