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 425
round.] Cheshunt Cottage, the Residence of Wm. Harrison, Esq. F. L. S. ETC. All that can render a country seat delightful, and a well furnished library in the house.{Evelyns Memoirs by Bray, vol. i. p. 432.) The sides of the road from London to Cheshunt, by Stoke Newington, Ed-monton, and Enfield… … [Fig. 1. Cheshuiu Cottage, from ihe Road.] Green, called the Green Lanes, between the Tottenham and Edmontonroad and the Barnet road, and threading our way through numerous inter-esting lanes, we may pass through very rural and umbrageous scenery,with the appearance of but few houses of any kind.…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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