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 179
parked and arboretumed withrare skill. Houses of stone and stucco, shingle and brick, on woodedcrag and hillock, fringe beach and cliff. 160 HOW TO MAKE A COUNTRY PLACE A house of flesh and blood is Shore Rocks. It is, like Pinnacle,representative of the building experience of nearly two score of… … SHORE ROCKS. Water Lawn Groomed by Nature. Volcanic-veined and lichen-rifted rock and boulder, both underand over cliff, stood where we blasted out its cellar. It seemed down-right sacrilege to swing the axe against the gnarled and twisted cedarthat had staunchly breasted the storms of two hundred…
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