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 190
space on the leftof the house. The terrace /, the beauty and utility of whichwe have already insisted upon, lies in this direction, serving asa kind of beautiful extended base to the house. We shall sup-pose this idea still further carried out in the architectural flower-garden, which surrounds… … [Fig. 70.] 154 COTTAGE RESIDENCES. like this, considered by themselves, and merely as flower gar-dens, because we think a natural arrangement is more repletewith beauty and grace, and is capable of affording a muchhigher kind of pleasure. But this kind of architectural flowergarden, so common in…
Architecture, Domestic
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