American homes and gardens (1905) (14759340026)

Identifier: americanhomr03newy (find matches)
Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York, Munn and Co
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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radeBehind the Settle exposed nickelplatedplumbing. A separatestairway leads to thethird floor which containsthe servants bedroom andtrunk room. The cellarcontains the heating ap-paratus, fuel room, andlaundry complete. The Garden At the side of the housethere was a plot o fground extending to t h ecorner of the street, whichwas bare and unkempt, asshown in the illustrationpresented and the problem,How to beautify it, wasan important one. Whenthe garden was first laidout it comprised a plot ofabout thirty feet squarenear the house, and at theright of the picture. Thesecond year it was en-1 a r g e d and laid out asshown in the illustrationswhich have been recentlytaken. The garden waslaid out in a formal man-ner and the beds were formed by strips of cypress boardsset down into the earth with the exposed part being painteddark green, except the beds which are about the summerhouse and fountain which were cut from the sod, leavinggrassed walks. The garden was planned with the purpose of
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In the Bedroom of the Owner the Walls are Covered with White Watered Silk, Draped and Caught Up by Pink RosesThe Furniture is Painted Gray with White Lines and Hand-Painted Pink Roses 28 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS July, 1906 having a view from the house and porch, and the entranceto the garden, on either side of which are placed large ter-ra-cotta pots filled with red geraniums, faces the porch. Thecentral walk opens from this gateway, and terminates in thecolonnade which extends along the western side of thegarden, beyond which is a broad settle, placed in front ofthe low balustrade fence with which the garden is enclosed.The garden is screened from the street by a colonnadeformed of a row of Ionic columns with each capped with abasket of fruit and flowers. Between these columns whichare painted white, is placed a latticed screen, painted green.The columns of this colonnade are ten feet in height and areconnected with stringers and cross pieces, on which crimsonramblers are trained a