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American country houses of to-day; an illustrated account of some excellent houses built and gardens planted during the last few years, showing unmistakable influence of the modern trend in ideals architectural (1915)

Howe, Samuel, 1854- · New York Architectural Book Pub. Co. P. Wenzel and M. Krakow · leaf 124

An illustration from American country houses of to-day; an illustrated account of some excellent houses built and gardens planted during the last few years, showing unmistakable influence of the modern trend in ideals architectural, 1915, leaf 124
rdering of herbaceous plants and its view make a ])icture oimany surpri-ses. This checker-board form of layout is unusual and has manyadvantages, not only because it permits easy access to flowers, but becauseit invites diagonal vistas of blossoms and does a host of things which lead totheir daily… … IIKUK IS TIIK IIAI.I, KKO.M CAKDKN KNTKANCK Ihis feature, so iiiiiiMial in reskleiiees, recalls iinmistak-alily the cloister of the alihey, the screen of the manor house.1-iirtiinately some of tin- tn!wel marks remain in the plasterwork. The ))avin;r is of larj/c Welsh tiles of a rieii nil

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