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The livable house, its garden (1917)

Dean, Ruth, 1889-1932 · New York : Moffat, Yard and Co. · leaf 140

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. It is a mongrel kind of garden, an in-betweentype—something that is neither formal nor naturalistic, but just acompromise. It usually means that its owner has told himselfhe does not want a formal garden, but—unwilling to give up allthe nursery plants of mans making which have no place in a… … Plan of a country place at Bedford Hills, Ne-u- York laid-out garden, where, in their off seasons, thev will not looklike a ragged fringe to a shrubbery border; and then, if one wishesan informal garden, to build one which is truly naturalistic, withas much of the spirit of woods and fields as it…

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