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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 255

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INES AND CLIMBING PLANTS. Value of this kind of vegetation. Fine natural effects. The European Ivy. The VirginiaCreeper. The Wild Grape Vine. The Bittersweet. The Trumpet Creeper. The PipeVine, and the Clematis. The Wistarias. The Honeysuckles and Woodbines. The Jas-mine and the Periploca. Eemarks… … I N E S and climbing plants are ob-p jects full of interest for the LandscapeGardener, for theyseem endowed withthe characteristics of the elegant, thebeautiful, and the picturesque, in theirluxuriant and ever-varying forms.When judiciously introduced, therefore, nothing can so easilygive a…

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