Underwood, Loring · Boston, Little Brown, and company · leaf 216
ythe ugly, and for the most part untidy,backyards of our large cities should not betransformed into beautiful little gardens, —gardens that shall be of a truly architectu-ral type furnished with \ases, fountains,and other accessories, as were the city yard-gardens of the Romans and Pompeians. How… … THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES collection of old barrels and boxes, shabbyfences, and homely pavements, generally infull view of the dining-room and of thewindows of the neighboring houses. Theidea of making these backyards into gar-dens is practical. Pictures of some thathave been successfully…
Gardens
Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
