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 290
ng would be advisable, andsecond, whether it will form or derange your picture.Sloping banks for part of the length of a road are very effec-tive; but the banks must be judiciously planted here andthere, and they must be neatly contrived to make them pic-turesque. According as you mean to destroy… … THE AMERICAN COTTaG£ BUILDER. 253 that must be removed should be cleared away, before youbegin anything else. If, in looking over your work, there happened to be enoughcleared to begin, you must endeavor so to shape your coursea> to appropriate as much of the really ornamental timberand boshes…
Architecture, Domestic
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