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 73
ole surface, excepting the walks, and the flower beds e, is to be laid down in turf, and kept neatly mown. This turf will give an appearance of much greater extent to the area than it could possibly have by any other arrangement, while it will be more agreeable to the eye through the whole year,… … [Fig. 16.] COTTAGE RESIDENCES. 51 and more especially in the middle of summer ; while at thelatter period flower beds have frequently a dry and parchedappearance, but poorly compensated for by the brilliancy ofa few plants in bloom, which scarcely hide the surface. The spiry topped trees shown in…
Architecture, Domestic
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