New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-28
A MODEL ESTATE.

! Here YOU can soc it," said the landscape
architect LAYING his hand on the edge OF
the table The architect designs the house.
with the stables and garage. The rest IS
all for the landscape architect First. OF
course. he goes on the ground and gets the
ideas of the owner. Here the man wanted
his house set by Itself. that il could nor
be seen from the road or from his neigh
bors places. Here's the drive leading mp
to the house. 1t curves over the hills, you
see. and lust before # reaches the house
it crosses the vista so that people coming
I'D yet glimpse % the house before they
reach H. and then lose il again.
Here below IS an orchard. to shut off
the road on that side. Below the house Is
high terrace leading down TO the formal
garden Now, here's the garden
He turned 10 another model. this time for
people perhaps an inch tall. II was a
sedate. regular garden with straight walks
and the most fascinating rows IT clay
shrubbery along ~ edges and q broad drv
POOL in the middle. where a fountain was
to play. There was another model for the
tennis courts. with tho nackstop nets made
into standing trellisses with clay vines
running along them. Even the central net
was in place. and the lines were marked
ont on the ground Two baby field mice
could have taken their rsckets and started
a set a. once or the tiny court
Then" he went on, there has 10 Re a
survey Of the ground. YOU can see how
delicate matter II is TO place the build
ings properly. Here. for instance. the
house must have q commanding and dlgni-
ned position yot - must rot stand IN sight
Of the road difference Of a few fee, IN
he height of this ground in the orchard
might have given the house IN entirely
different site
Just as the architect tries 70 make his
house comfortsbl 70 live ". So tho land
scope architect must have ~ surroundings
conyeniently arranged az well as beautiful
The vegetable gardens and stables must be
near by but ont OF sight \ house that IL
shut m with woods makes an opnressive
place To live in, so we must provide a view.
ON one side YOU see. the house ovorlooks
the terrace and the formal garden and the
orchard. In the other direction We omen a
Vista through the woods almost to the end
Of the estate. with an open air theatre al
the end. All the omen ground near tho
drive is treated as a park. with lawns and
trees.
There is a great deal of grading ia he
done Of course, before such a Mace can no
arranged az Is desired There is q nrob
lem in making the grading work balance
that is, seeing To IL that the amount az
earth 'hat ~ to he removed Is the same as
the amount that Is to be filed In. There
must be place To put all the material that
II eXcavated, and all the filling must no
"one with earth from the estate Moreover
the earth should not be carried an, con
siderable distance
III" landscape architect then works out
ms plans for the finished work Ills draw.
"'s' sho" The placing of the buildings the
"details OF terraces ana gardens m. loca.
uoha OF roadways, the hollovs that are TO
D. n'ed In the places tina, ara to hs zrad.
90 down. and hnsll the whole drainage
system OF the estate. Alons the Atlantic