San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 570
d attractive layoutof the grounds and the garden. The country house needs a land-scape which is smaller in scale, and in which our architectural con-trivances are not made insignificant by the scale of their surroundings;and such is the character of the coast country in California. Of courseit has… … hgsidence of Mrs. George II. Chtlds The Architect and Engineer of California 35 pretty on the one hand, as it is on the other from being wild and spec-tacular. It may consist of no more than a line of low bare hills whosedeeply modeled slopes and round full contours relieve the monotony of afertile…
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