The livable house, its garden . A LONG FLIGHT OF SHALLOW STEPS Estate of Mr. Samuel Heilner, at Cows, New^ York. FerrucioVitale, Landscape Architecl [26] / G a d n. A DRIVE WHICH TAKES ADVANTAGEOF A GOOD NATURAL SETTING Residence of Mr. J. Brooks Nichols, at Detroit, and Rotting, Architects [27] The Livable House It seems hardly necessary to write admonitions against the need-lessly serpentine walk. The path which winds its way acrossthirty unobstructed feet of front lawn is an error we like to thinkof as Victorian, for almost every one has come to realize that apath, in or
The livable house, its garden . A LONG FLIGHT OF SHALLOW STEPS Estate of Mr. Samuel Heilner, at Cows, New^ York. FerrucioVitale, Landscape Architecl [26] / G a d n. A DRIVE WHICH TAKES ADVANTAGEOF A GOOD NATURAL SETTING Residence of Mr. J. Brooks Nichols, at Detroit, and Rotting, Architects [27] The Livable House It seems hardly necessary to write admonitions against the need-lessly serpentine walk. The path which winds its way acrossthirty unobstructed feet of front lawn is an error we like to thinkof as Victorian, for almost every one has come to realize that apath, in order to curve pleasingly, must have some excuse, eithernatural or artificial, for curving. The average dooryard pathperforms its duty best and is therefore most attractive in runninga straightforward course from gate to door. The inevitable ex-ceptions to this rule bring their own solutions. The two points which remain unconsidered in a choice of thehouse site—drainage and grading—are more or less interdepend-ent. When the question of good drainage arises the prospectivehouse builder naturally looks about for a hill on which to placehis house. And in this
Size: 1327px × 1884px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectlandscapegardening
