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 137
ot highly esteem-ed; but it is a valuable tree when judiciously employed, andproduces a given quantity of foliage and shade sooner perhaps 126 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. than any other. Some of the Annerican kinds, are majesticand superb trees when old, particularly the Cottonwoodand Balsam poplars.* One… … [Fi-. ao. The Conohwod.j * There is a noble specimen of the Cottonwood, or, as it is here called, theBalm of Gilead poplar, about two miles north of Newburgh, on the Hudson,which gives its name to the small village (Balmville,) near it. The branchescover a surface of one hundred feet in diameter,…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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