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 426
by large hay-barns. Scenery of this kind is never seen bythe citizen who goes to his country seat along the public road, in his fami-ly carriage or in a stage-coach ; and it is accordingly only known to pe-destrians, and such as are not afraid of driving their horses over roughroads, or meeting… … 416 APPENDIX. near Enfield, at Forty Hill, there is a handsome church, built and endowedby Mr. Myers, opposite to his park, which is filled with large and hand-some trees. Afterwards it passes the celebrated park of Theobalds, nearwhere formerly stood a royal palace, the favourite residence of…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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