Excerpt from Description of Plan for the Improvement of Fairmount Park The terraces to the east of the house, instead of destroying, we propose to turn into an interesting feature not often seen in parks, but which the small instances in Washington and Frank lin Squares, show to be highly appreciated by the masses. We mean the introduction of beds of roses and flowering shrubs. These terraces are prettily adapted for this purpose. Flowering vines can also be profitably employed in adorning rocks and summer houses to ...
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Excerpt from Description of Plan for the Improvement of Fairmount Park The terraces to the east of the house, instead of destroying, we propose to turn into an interesting feature not often seen in parks, but which the small instances in Washington and Frank lin Squares, show to be highly appreciated by the masses. We mean the introduction of beds of roses and flowering shrubs. These terraces are prettily adapted for this purpose. Flowering vines can also be profitably employed in adorning rocks and summer houses to be noticed hereafter. A certain amount of diversity of color is always produced by planting the different varieties of trees of whatever kind together. But attention should sometimes be especially directed to this feature by placing groups at some little distance from the drives composed of trees selected for the purpose, such as the Scarlet Oak, Sugar, Norway and Red Maples, Abele, Purple Beech, English Beech, Sassafras, Liquidambar, White Birch, Dogwood, Ste. Whenever a cluster is formed it should not be composed wholly of trees that do not branch out till at some distance from the ground, which thus present their naked and bare stems, but small trees and shrubs should be judiciously interspersed amongst them, so as to blend the mass easily and freely with the ground. The rhododendron is especially desirable for this purpose as it thrives well under larger trees. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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