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 346
same spot repeatedly. On thisaccount the beds must always be smaller in proportion thanthey are on gravel, where a path may be trampled on frommorning till night, any day in the year, without damage;but if the grass be ever so expansive in proportion to thebeds, it is soon damaged if there be many… … THE AMERICAN COTTACIE BIII.PKR. 301 done at the very season a place is most frequented, is a scrious objection. It is not uncommon to see figures cut in the grass onboth sides of a long, straight walk. Whoever adopts astraight walk as a feature, finds something is required totake off the monotony…
Architecture, Domestic
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