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Cottage residences : or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds. Adapted to North America (1847)

Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852 · New York : Wiley and Putnam · leaf 132

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anteffect from the drawing-room windows ; and the two beds j filledwith choice double Dahlias. In the turf is planted a number ofthe finest species of ornamental trees and shrubs, some beingallowed to grow alone and assume all their beauty of develop-ment, and others planted in groups, or thickets,… … [Fig. 47. J 104 COTTAGE RESIDENCES. being planted in groups in this way, will require that the sur-face around each tree for a small area of about two feet indiameter be kept loose by culture to promote their growth,until they attain considerable size. The entrance gate is shown at k, and there is…

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