A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, adapted to North America; with a view to the improvement of country residences. Comprising historical notices and general principles of the art, directions for laying out gardens and arranging plantations, the description and cultivation of hardy trees, decorative accompaniments to the house and grounds, the formation of pieces of artificial water, flower gardens, etc., with remarks on rural architecture (1844)
Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852 · New York, London, Wiley and Putnam · leaf 123
95 ON WOOD AND PLANTATIONS. … [Fig. 21. Plan of the foregoing grounds as a Country Seat, after ten years’ improvement.! Figure 22, is the plan of an American mansion residence of considerable extent, only part of the farm lands, /, being here delineated. In this residence, as there is no extensive view, worth preserving, beyond…
Landscape gardening
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