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 210
of building in view; and also, as it is found mucheasier to produce, in a short time, a satisfactory effect, by thin-ning out and improving a suitable natural wood, than by plant-ing and raising up new growths of sylvan accessories, wherenone are already existing. The grounds are about 120 acres in… … 170 COTTAGE RESIDENCES. upon this area, which will eventually, if proper advantage istaken of this circumstance, cause the demesne to appear of largeextent. In laying out the grounds, the course of the entranceroad 6, was determined by a natural depression, which affordeda much more easy and…
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