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 286
is an elegant circular temple or summer-house, D, in the classical style, surrounded by a series ofvases, or pedestals, c, and backed 1)y a thick plantation ofevergreens and deciduous trees. A handsome statue is])laced in the open space at e, and at r is a rustic opensummer-house, built of… … Fiff 151, A common fault in all the continental grounds, wliiclimay be noticed in the foregoing examples, is the unartisticmanner in which the walks are arranged, by -whicli theyare not kej^t of any uniform Avidth, but run into greatopen spaces of gravel round the house and in various otherparts,…
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