November, 1920 
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Tebbs 
GRADUAL STEPS IN THE GARDEN 
Garden steps should be broad and flat, 
with short risers and wide treads. This 
avoids abruptness, and abruptness is the 
one element that shoidd never be permitted 
in a garden. Wide, low steps give a sense 
of gradual approach to the house, and that 
is as it shoidd be. Their stone is a relief to 
the green planting about them and, if the 
terrace wall has a rail of wrought iron and 
the front of the landing a little wall foun¬ 
tain and pool, then they are the perfect 
garden steps. This example is from the 
home of Devereux Milburn at Westbury, 
L.I. Peabody, Wilson & Brown, architects 
