. The livable house, its garden . Gardens; Landscape gardening. T h L, i V a b I House. Plan of the Garden of Mr. Aymar Embury II, Architect, Englewood, New Jersey and makes for repose and spaciousness; an all-over pattern, on the other hand, is apt to be less pleasing for reasons which are hard to analyze. Perhaps because it tends to be complicated and rest- less, perhaps because it easily becomes cramped in feeling—in any case it is well to make paths wide and beds spacious at the ex- pense of numbers in such a garden, for nothing so reduces the apparent size of a garden as paths that are to
. The livable house, its garden . Gardens; Landscape gardening. T h L, i V a b I House. Plan of the Garden of Mr. Aymar Embury II, Architect, Englewood, New Jersey and makes for repose and spaciousness; an all-over pattern, on the other hand, is apt to be less pleasing for reasons which are hard to analyze. Perhaps because it tends to be complicated and rest- less, perhaps because it easily becomes cramped in feeling—in any case it is well to make paths wide and beds spacious at the ex- pense of numbers in such a garden, for nothing so reduces the apparent size of a garden as paths that are too narrow. Three examples of the central stretch of turf type of garden, each one differently handled, are Mr. Marshall Fry's, Mr. Michael Jenkins', and Mr. Jonathan Godfrey's gardens. Each one of these, I venture to say, would seem smaller and less repose- ful if the same spaces were covered all over with flower beds and [90]. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Dean, Ruth, 1889-1932. New York : Moffat, Yard and Co.
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