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 472
this structure, the open- ings between being filled in with branches (about three inches in diameter) of different trees — the more irregular the better, so that the perpendicular surface of the exterior and interior is kept nearly equal. In lieu of thatch, the roof may be first tightly boarded,… … [Fig. 83.] roof formed of an open lattice work of branches like the sides, and the whole covered by a grape, bignonia, or some other vine or creeper of luxuriant growth. The seats are in the interior. Figure 84, represents a covered seat of another kind. The central structure, which is circular, is…
Landscape gardening
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