The 1917 Reptonian: an annual publication representative of the work in the professional course of landscape gardening at the University of Illinois . n one level below theterrace, while Miss Sawyer varied her plan by a series of terraces com-posed of broad grass steps bordered by perennials enclosing a long grasspanel. The end of this panel is accented by a fountain. After ascendingthe steps on either side and passing thru the banquet house, one comes inview of the flower garden proper, sunk to the same level as the panel andhouse terrace. This is reached by a flight of stone stairs from an i
The 1917 Reptonian: an annual publication representative of the work in the professional course of landscape gardening at the University of Illinois . n one level below theterrace, while Miss Sawyer varied her plan by a series of terraces com-posed of broad grass steps bordered by perennials enclosing a long grasspanel. The end of this panel is accented by a fountain. After ascendingthe steps on either side and passing thru the banquet house, one comes inview of the flower garden proper, sunk to the same level as the panel andhouse terrace. This is reached by a flight of stone stairs from an inter-mediate terrace marked by seats on either side. Within the gardens areexamples of the ever present topiary work so distinctive of this gardeningperiod. In Mr. Thomass plan, the main central axis is carried the entirelength of the garden, ending with the so-called banquet or summer the garden on either side are bays of flowering shrubs accentedby standard evergreens and filled in with perennials. This use of the oldtype of buttressed hedge was the forerunner of the English border oftoday. The 1917 R eptonian Seventy-nine ~7\. 4t*? I •-
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