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 402
construction of this little bridge; and when the wood is cutat the proper season, (durable kinds being chosen,) such abridge, well made, will remain in excellent order for manyyears. Rockwork is another kind of decoration sometimes intro-duced in particular portions of the scenery of a residence,… … [Pig. 66. Rockwork.] good taste otherwise prevailed, such a barbarous melange^ orconfused pile of stones mingled with soil, and planted overwith dwarfish plants dignified with the name of rockwork,that we have been led to believe that it is much better to at-tempt nothing of the kind, unless there…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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