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 323
disposed out-build-ings, all combine to form that picturesque whole, which dis-tinguishes the modern Italian villa from every other.f A building in the Italian style, may readily be known atfirst sight, by the peculiar appearance of its roofs. These arealways projecting at the eaves, and deeply… … [Fig. 27. Mr. Smillies Villa.] being formed abroad, of semicylindrical tiles, which give adistinct and highly marked expression to this portion of thebuilding.* So many appliances of comfort and enjoymentsuited to a warm climate, appear too, in the villas of this style,that it has a peculiarly…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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