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 335
[Fig. 33. View of Paulding Manor, from the S. £.] … [Kig. 34. PUn of the Pi RURAL ARCHITECTURE. 325 SO massive as in the castellated style, but evidently intendedfor ornament only. This line of parapets is often varied bythe ornamented gablet of a dormar window, rising out ofthe roof here and there, and adding to the quaintness of thewhole. We must…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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