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 64
t; more frequently than mostof us realize the solution of our difficultieson the road to garden perfection lies in elimi-nation rather than addition. Book of Gardens 59 /( is often advisableto break the gardenvista wit It the oc-casional relief of anarbor. This is doneon the Newport placeof Mrs.… … The garden vista isusually accented bya path which formsthe major axis in thegarden design. Whereit crosses other axesthe spot can bemarked by a sundialor bird bath. In thegardens of Mrs. JohnS. Newberry atGrosse Pointe Farms,near Detroit, the pathleads the eye to thepergola on one sideand the…
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