The country house; a practical manual of the planning and construction of the American country home and its surroundings (1905)
Hooper, Charles Edward, 1867- · New York : Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 314
gentleman is dumb; his is simply to saynothing and saw wood. That the reader may form some idea of themost common models upon which the Americangarden may be based, a brief description of theirseveral characteristics will serve to show theirdistinctive differences in scheme of design. Renaissance… … 290 The Country House Roman ruins as then existed, borne out by descriptions of them by Cicero andPliny, formed the basis of design for the Italian garden. The main fact which atonce strikes the beholder is that it is an architectural effort in which even Natureherself has been conventionalised, to…
Architecture, Domestic · Suburban homes · Gardens
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