Underwood, Loring · Boston, Little Brown, and company · leaf 58
many of the readers ofthis book may ha^e a garden wherein asummer-house, built on some such simplelines as this one, would be an addition, thewriter has given this description of the onehe built himself. Besides red cedar or locust one could usewhite cedar or larch, also the second growthof white… … o THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES ning. The chief quahties of all these woodsare their straight and gradual taperinghabits of growth and their durability.Red cedar should stand for fifty or sixtyyears, but posts set in the ground often showbad decay after ten or twelve years. Toprevent this they…
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