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Cottage residences; or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds (1873)

Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852, Sargent, Henry Winthrop, 1810-1882, Downing, Charles, Harney, George E · New York : J. Wiley & son · leaf 277

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is abundant, thedark figure in the centre and the four dark squares markedE might be handsome fountains; the four smaller squares,marked f, might be vases or pedestals; or, if water is notat command, then the larger spaces might be occupied by COTTAGE EESIDENCES. 229 statues and the smaller ones by… … Fig. 144. like dahlias, fill the centre of the beds, and so graduallylessening in size, till verbenas, and otlier plants only twoor three inches high, occupy the space next the walk. It is sometimes desirable, in a residence of a particularcharacter, that the style of art adopted should be carried…

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