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The long narrow herbaceous border garden 
should end on something worthy of its 
length, both in size and design, such as an 
arbor, loggia, or, as here, a Colonial gazebo 
hold the ground displaced in making these 
different levels, and to provide some means 
of getting from one level to the other. The 
hillside garden shown at the top of the 
first page contains solutions for all these 
problems. 
At the point on the slope marked by the 
top of the nearest long wall, the ground was 
cut straight down for 5 ' (the height of the 
wall) and the earth thus obtained was 
spread on the slope below, making the level 
space shown in the foreground. As such 
a perpendicular cut as this on any slope 
would cave in or crumble away, it must be 
supported by a retaining wall. Any num¬ 
ber of levels like this can be made on a 
slope providing the hill is long enough. In 
this garden, however, attention was cen¬ 
tered on one fairly broad level space at the 
bottom. The level of the ground on this 
lower space is about 20' below the ground 
in front of the house, but instead of cut¬ 
ting straight down for 20', which would 
have been a terrific piece of work and 
would have meant a retaining wall 20' 
high, the slope itself was used to make up 
the difference in grade. This great height 
would have made it necessary also to have 
from forty to sixty steps, depending upon 
the risers, which would have made a task 
out of going to the garden when it should 
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The great effectiveness of the broad open 
type of garden is stistained only when the 
central space is kept flat and severely sim¬ 
ple reserving all decoration for the borders 
