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 375
sses, is productive of by far the mostsplendid eflect. In England, where flower-gardens are car-ried to their greatest perfection, the preference in planting isgiven to exotics which blossom constantly throughoutthe season, and which are kept in the green-house duringwinter, and turned out in the… … [Kig. 55. English riower-Garden.] etc.* This mode can be adopted here where a small green-house or frame is kept. In the absence of these, nearly thesame effect may be produced by choosing the most showyherbaceous plants, perennial and biennial, alternating themwith hardy bulbs, and the finer…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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