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 319
itecture. To this we answer, that although this form, fig. 24, is actu- 308 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. ally in more common use than any other style, in the UnitedStates, it is greatly inferior to the Gothic and its modifica-tions in fitness, including under that head all the comfortsand conveniences of… … -^?^^^^&=^^^sr& [Fig. 24. Grecian Resideoce.] We have already avowed that we consider fitness and ex-pression of purpose two leading principles of the first impor-tance in Rural Architecture ; and Grecian architecture in itspure form, viz: the temple, when applied to the purposes ofdomestic…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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