The American cottage builder: a series of designs, plans, and specifications, from $200 to $20,000. For homes for the people. Together with warming, ventilation, drainage, painting, and landscape gardening (1854)
Bullock, John · New York, Stringer & Townsend · leaf 248
rsed with islands of shrubbery, clumps ofevergreens, tall, spreading pendulous conifers, umbrageousoaks, rare trees from far distant climes, covered with all theluxurious foliage and flowers of the tropics. Anotherattribute, and by no means an unimportant one, was thegarden contiguous, forming a… … Till-: AMERICAN COTTAGE BUILDER, 210 pear, the red-cheeked cherry, the golden apricot; and,peeping out, nearly smothered by its own habiliments, wediscovered that never-cloying delicacy, the strawberry, as ifendeavoring to escape that inevitable destiny peculiar tostrawberries, of being smothered…
Architecture, Domestic
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