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The Dutch Colonial type of house needs a site on some sort of slope. Hence the necessity for grading that would give this house a dignity and imposing massiveness. 
The drive-in can be seen to advantage, and the beginning shrubbery 
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HOW THE GRADING WAS DONE—ADDING A BARN—THE PROBLEM OF THE DRIVE—SETTING SHRUBBERY 
A S you will re¬ 
call, when 
we carved out our 
beauty spot from 
the raw forest we 
had everything to 
build, from the 
ground up, and 
this included even 
the soil for the 
front and rear 
lawns. No old held 
was ours, mellowed 
and grown to held 
grasses, needing 
only turning under 
and sowing with 
lawn seed, but the 
soil itself had to be 
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1 his is the completed plan at the end of three years—quite a change from the original young forest. 
Note the arrangement of the drives and paths 
prepared even for 
grass. There was 
considerable lawn 
expanse, altogether 
some seven thou¬ 
sand square feet of 
it, and our means 
would hardly per¬ 
mit more than two 
inches of top soil 
spread over the 
area — at $1-5° a 
load! And this 
was not enough; 
not nearly enough, 
with our forest soil 
underneath, for the 
leaching action of 
the rains soon in J 
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