. Practical landscape gardening : the importance of careful planning, locating the house, arrangement of walks and drives, construction of walks and drives, lawns and terraces, how to plant a property, laying out a flower garden, architectural features of the garden, rose gardens and hardy borders, wild gardens and rock gardens, planting plans and planting lists . Landscape gardening. ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES OF THE GARDEN If turned columns are used their height should be eight or nine times the diameter and the lintels should be of two three-inch by ten-inch pieces, notched over the cap. The ra
. Practical landscape gardening : the importance of careful planning, locating the house, arrangement of walks and drives, construction of walks and drives, lawns and terraces, how to plant a property, laying out a flower garden, architectural features of the garden, rose gardens and hardy borders, wild gardens and rock gardens, planting plans and planting lists . Landscape gardening. ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES OF THE GARDEN If turned columns are used their height should be eight or nine times the diameter and the lintels should be of two three-inch by ten-inch pieces, notched over the cap. The rafters (Fig. 151) should be three inches by eight inches, notched over the lintels. For the better support of vines, additional pieces should be placed on top of the rafters, running at right angles to the same. These pieces may be one and one-eighth inches by two and three-quarter inches; or of shingling lath, planed down, which reduces them to about three-quarters of an inch by two and three-eighths inches. The rafters (Figs. 151-153) should have a projection of from eighteen inches to thirty inches and should be cut to a good bold outline. The caps should always be covered with hght sheet lead (Fig. 151) neatly tacked around the edge. When stone is used for the support of the superstructure the columns or piers should not be less than twenty-two inches, and these should stand on a foundation twenty-eight inches square, which will allow of a three-mch projection all the way around. The stones should be laid up in cement mortar and, where pointed, the pointing should conform to the pointing of the house, if the pergola is adjacent thereto. An effective method of laying up the stone work is to rake out the mortar joints to a depth of two to three inches; this will give a deep shadow and form a friendly sup- porting ledge for the vines. Cap stones should be of the "" same stone as that used in the piers, fiat and hammer dressed, without projection, and set flush with th
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