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House & garden's book of gardens; containing over four hundred illustrations of special flower types, plans and suggestions for landscape work, a complete gardener's calendar of the year's activities, planting and spraying tables, and a portfolio of beautiful gardens in varied sections of the United States and foreign countries (1921)

Wright, Richardson Little, 1887-1961 · New York, C. Nast & Company · leaf 57

An illustration from House & garden's book of gardens; containing over four hundred illustrations of special flower types, plans and suggestions for landscape work, a complete gardener's calendar of the year's activities, planting and spraying tables, and a portfolio of beautiful gardens in varied sections of the United States and foreign countries, 1921, leaf 57
eencompleted. And there are other more esthetic but no lessiraportant features. There is something sane-ly substantial and forthright about the path oflarge stones. It knows where it is going, andwhy; it lends an air of pemianency and de-pendability to the whole garden. Tiie age andstrength of the… … The paved garden walklends an air of solidpermanence to the wholesetting, in contrast to thetransient flowers. Olm-sted Brothers, landscapearchitects Regularly shaped slabsarranged in a geometricalmanner are sufficientlyformal in effect to fit inwell with a scheme suchas this there in the spaces…

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