The woman's book : dealing practically with the modern conditions of home-life, self-support, education, opportunties, and every-day problems (1894)
New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 24
that they can afford to make fewer ofthem. The site of your house selected, thenext thing to do is to grade the ground ;the next thing, I should say, of a land-scape-gardening nature. It would bewise to get the house built first, andany drainage attended to that wouldrequire pipes to be led out… … The Home Grounds. and has no pockets where water willcollect, or slopes that will be sure toshed the water toward the house. Ifyou get into trouble in this way, youmay sometimes succeed in relieving thelot by what is termed a land-basin, ei-ther penetrating into a sandy sub-soil,or leading through…
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