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Identifier: americanhomesga101913newy (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: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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several strains ofheredity, tradition or whatever you may please to call it.In its general outward aspect, and also in some of its fea-tures within, it combines the traits of at least two older houses, one of them the ancient homestead of the occupants,an ample dwelling built at Oyster Bay about 1663, theother also a family house in the same place, scarcely lessvenerable in age. Even the base of the sundial in its gardenof deliciously old-fashioned flowers was once a highwatermark by the Sound. Its name comes from the older Wye,deservedly famous on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The grounds of Wye House are bounded on the northby a dense row of lofty spruces, pines and hemlocks whilebeyond and high above their tops rises the graceful shaftof the cathedral spire. East, west and south the outlookis comparatively open and the view unobstructed over awide stretch of the dun-colored Hempstead Plain—it weremuch better called Hempstead Heath or give^ its old :• :• ■-■■ V£/?ANBA
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First floor plan Second floor plan April, 1913 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 129 name, Salisbury Plain. De-spite their monotony theseplains, covered with long,dry, tawny grass, have abeauty of their own, abeauty best appreciated,perhaps, from the edge of agreat field of turnips orcabbages with the distantcathedral spire cutting intothe evening sky against aglorious strip of hazy goldensunset glowing beneath hugefluffy banks of Ruysdael orHobbema clouds. The sightreally transports one almostbodily to Holland and onlywindmills are lacking in thelandscape. The atmosphereof Garden City, however, isnot at all Dutch but ratherEnglish with its bishops,deans, canons and chaptersso that, at times, one quitefancies himself living in

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