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 221
picturesque beauty, the Larch is almost unrivalled.Unlike most other trees which must grow old, uncouth, andmis-shapen, before they can attain that expression, this is sin-gularly so, as soon almost as it begins to assume the statureof a tree. It can never be called a beautiful tree, so far as 27… … [Fig. 22. The European Larth.] ness, and picturesqueness, peculiar to itself, and which itseems to have caught from the wild and rugged chasms,rocks, and precipices of its native mountains. There its irreg-ular and spiry top and branches, harmonize admirably withthe abrupt variation of the…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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