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Locate Boundaries: WITH GARDENS a sense of enclosure is important. On small lots the boundaries may be those of the property or even plantings or other pleasant features on a neighbor's property, for when I speak of boundaries I mean not those of the lot but those that limit the view. On larger grounds the boundaries to views may be well within the property lines.
In May 1967, Marinatos searched for a buried city on those parts of Thera that were still intact. Such parts had neither been blown away in the explosion, eroded by heavy rainfall, nor destroyed by pumice miners in recent times. He hoped to make use of the new cesium magnetometer, an electronic device based upon nuclear principles, to locate boundaries the structures, but no useful readings were possible because of the highly magnetic nature of the volcanic deposits. Marinatos was then forced to rely upon his own knowledge, experience, and intuitive judgment to locate boundaries sites for the exploratory digs. His judgment proved correct.
Boundaries are of many kinds. Never install one that gives any suggestion of being a spite fence. Many American communities are characterized by a complete absence of fences, walls or hedges around front yards; and grounds of all houses on the street merge into one delightful park-like picture of lawns, trees and shrubbery. If you live in such a community think well before you introduce what is likely to be an incongruous note by sharply defining lot boundaries seen from the street. The mere suggestion of definition by the skill-ful use of a flowering tree, shade tree, evergreen or clumps of shrubs is the most be done and ev.en then great restraint is needed. |
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