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 346
replete withinterest in America, than the cottage of Washington Irving,near Tarrytown. The legend of sleepy Hollow, so de- RURAL ARCHITECTURE. 335 lightfully told in the Sketch-Book, has made every one ac-quamted with this neighbourhood, and especially with thesite of the present building, there… … [Fig. 31. Residence of W.ishington Irving, Esq.; rendered classic ground by his elegant pen, and made it hispermanent residence. The house of Baltus Van Tassel,has been altered and rebuilt in a quaint style, partaking some-what of the English cottage mode, but retaining strongly-marked symptoms of…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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