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 74
HILLSIDE GARDEN IN MASSACHUSETTS The original garden sile -iias a steeply sloping meadoTX.. Thiswas broken by -walls and the terraces graded down. The wallsgave a background jor beds of hardy perennials. The stepsare accented by English boxwood trees. Water plants grow inthe long pool. From the… … From one end of the pool runs a per-gola with an old apple tree overhangingthe water and casting its shade on theimmering surface. An apple tree in aGreek garden! Lets see—in one of herfragments, doesnt Sappho speak of anapple tree and the golden fruit that wasalways too high to reach?
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