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HENDERSON’S PICTURESQUE GARDENS 
The Terrace Steps 
One of the merits of a 
terrace is the charming 
opportunities that it af- 
fords for a certain amount 
of adornment with appar- 
ently useful garden archi- 
tecture, as steps and 
balustrades; these again 
permit of being further 
embellished with vases 
and statuary. We picture 
above simple terrace steps 
of stone draped with 
Japan Ivy. 
The Terraced Lawn 
Grass -clothed terraces are admittedly agreeable features near a 
house situated on the summit of a slope, the house gaining char- 
acter and importance not only from its elevated situation, but the 
terraces seeming to give an impression of stability to its foundation. 
The example illustrated below is very pleasing ; tbe various levels of 
the successive terraces embellished simply with clipped evergreens 
give a touch of the formal sufficient to permit the classic lines of 
the house and balustraded enclosure to break away gradually to the 
surrounding natural landscape. 
