How to make a country place; an account of the successes and the mistakes of an amateur in thirty-five years of farming, building and development: together with a practical plan for securing a home and an independent income, starting with small capital (1914)
Sawyer, Joseph Dillaway. [from old catalog] · New York, Orange Judd company; [etc., etc.] · leaf 177
second. Large trees shade the porch and give seclusion. In fact, buildingand planting were tightly hand-clasped here. The advantages ofimmediately beautifying with tree and shrub are fully illustratedin the photographs showing both crude beginnings and mature de-velopment. 158 HOW TO MAKE A COUNTRY… … WHITE ROCK. Here is conventional little White Rock, a Philadelphia inspira-tion. It may have been the white stone steps in that placid city thatsuggested this name, but the reason for its building was the fact thatI chanced to see one day in crossing Walnut Street the demolitionof one of the grand…
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