American estates and gardens . X CO QZ o DC oo wXh Oai CO <J CQ Q< O wJ 6 w CO OI wa: h z fcdC CO [3]. ooPi I o I—I > Of u Ow o wh O ^^FF^^ls^S^FFllF^ [4] AMERICAN ESTATES AND GARDENS terminates in the valley below, at the edge of a winding and V)eautifully clear lake, and onthe other hill of the slope are the dense forests of a neighboring Country Club. It would seem,therefore, that the wild features of the landscape must be always i^reserved. As one passes through the gatewa}^ and approaches the house, which is ])laced ona stone terrace with almost menacing abruptness, one can
American estates and gardens . X CO QZ o DC oo wXh Oai CO <J CQ Q< O wJ 6 w CO OI wa: h z fcdC CO [3]. ooPi I o I—I > Of u Ow o wh O ^^FF^^ls^S^FFllF^ [4] AMERICAN ESTATES AND GARDENS terminates in the valley below, at the edge of a winding and V)eautifully clear lake, and onthe other hill of the slope are the dense forests of a neighboring Country Club. It would seem,therefore, that the wild features of the landscape must be always i^reserved. As one passes through the gatewa}^ and approaches the house, which is ])laced ona stone terrace with almost menacing abruptness, one can hardly realize that scarcely two yearssufficed to bring the land immediately around one to a fine state of perfection and of cedar trees of great age and size, as may he seen in the frontispiece of this book, havebeen transplanted for the creation of the formal ajiproach, and have been so ably blendedwith the natural licauties of the ]_)lace as to form an integral ])art of one of the mostelaborate and extensive schemes of its kind ever carried out in America. The driveway, afte
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