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should lie next the building, giving as broad and continuous a 

 lawn as possible. It should be remembered, however, that a 

 terrace next a building should not be a part of the landscape, 

 but a part of the architecture; that is, it should serve as a 

 base to the building. It will at once be seen, therefore, that 

 terraces are most in place against those buildings that have 

 strong horizontal lines, and they are little suitable against 

 buildings with very broken lines and mixed or gothic features. 

 In order to join the terrace to the building, it is usually advis- 

 able to place some architectural feature upon its crown, as a 

 balustrade, and to ascend it by means of architectural steps. 

 The terrace elevation, therefore, becomes a part of the base of 

 the building, and the top of it is an esplanade. 



59. A terrace in the distance; in the foreground an ideal "running out " of 



the bank. 



A simple and gradually sloping bank can nearly always 

 be made to take the place of a terrace. For example, let the 

 operator make a terrace, with sharp angles above and below, 

 in the fall of the year; in the spring, he will find (if he has not 

 sodded it heavily) that nature has taken the matter in hand 

 and the upper angle of the terrace has been washed away and 

 deposited in the lower angle, and the result is the beginning of 

 a good series of curves. Figure 59 shows an ideal slope, with its 

 double curve, comprising a convex curve on the top of the bank, 



