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 250
s ; after which it becomescomparatively stationary, but will live many centuries. When young, the Yew is rather compact and bushy in itsform; but as it grows old, the foliage spreads out in fine hor-izontal masses, the outline of the tree is irregularly varied,and the whole ultimately becomes… … (Fig. 23. The English Yew.] In England, it has been customary, since the earliest set-tlement of that island by the Britons, to plant the Yew inchurchyards; and it is therefore as decidedly consecrated to 240 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. this purpose there, as the Cypress is in the south of Europe.For the…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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