. The complete home landscape. Landscape gardening; Gardens. Fig. 6.—If the house is located above the street level and the grade is quite steep, the approach and lawn may be treated as in (A) above by providing a series of terraces and retaining walls. However, in general, a treatment such as shown in (B) is much to be pre- ferred charge with a sheet of old canvas or something similar to keep the particles of earth and wood from flying. Before placing the stick of dynamite, make a hole with a crowbar well under the stump; after inserting the fuse and cap in the explosive, insert the resulting
. The complete home landscape. Landscape gardening; Gardens. Fig. 6.—If the house is located above the street level and the grade is quite steep, the approach and lawn may be treated as in (A) above by providing a series of terraces and retaining walls. However, in general, a treatment such as shown in (B) is much to be pre- ferred charge with a sheet of old canvas or something similar to keep the particles of earth and wood from flying. Before placing the stick of dynamite, make a hole with a crowbar well under the stump; after inserting the fuse and cap in the explosive, insert the resulting cartridge in the hole, letting it lie on a solid bottom if possible as the tendency is to shoot downward. Then fill the hole with stiff clay, tamping it in firmly with a wooden stick—and it is ready for firing. The size of the charge needed depends upon the size and rigidity of the stump and must be learned through experience, but one stick will do wonders. In crowded places where it is not permissible to » t^ c! poT-<^k blast, a stump will have to be dug out by hand. It is often possible to take it out in sections, by splitting it with wedges after the roots have been cut and slopal-3'-j Fig. 7.—When the house sets well back from the street, a terrace can often be used to good advantage. But it must be well proportioned to produce a favorable effect. The dis- tance A-B in the two smaller sketches should always be as great as or greater than the distance A-C, as illustrated in the larger sketch at the bottom. 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 Jennings, Arthur J; Johnson, Leonard H. New York, A. T. De La Mare
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