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 grounds 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 .. (1841)
Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852 · New York & London, Wiley and Putnam; Boston, C. C. Little & co. · leaf 108
eldom of extraordinary size ; andthere are more truly majestic oaks in the parks of Englandthan are to be found in the whole cultivated portion of theUnited States. Here and there, however, throughout ourcountry, may be seen a solitary oak of great age and immensesize, which attest the fitness of… … [Fig. IS. The Charier Oak, Hartford. admiration of hundreds of travellers, on the route to Niagara.The celebrated Charter Oak at Hartford, which has figuredso conspicuously in the history of New-England, is still ex- 98 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. isting in a green old age, one of the most interesting…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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