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 369
rved. One is, to cut thebeds out of the green turf, which is, ever afterwards, keptwell-mown or cut for the walks, and the edges pared; theother, to surround the beds with edgings of verdure, as box,etc., or some more durable material, as tiles, or cut stone, thewalks between being covered with… … (Fig.53. The Irregular Flower-garden.] EMBELLISHMENTS. 359 The irregular flower-garden is surrounded by an irregu-lar belt of trees and ornamental shrubs of the choicest spe-cies, and the beds, are varied in outline, as well as irregularlydisposed, sometimes grouping together, sometimes…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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