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 444
g green succulent vegetables, is essen-tial to the thriving of rabbits kept in hutches; and, hence, in London andother large towns, instead of fresh vegetables, they are fed with clover-hay. One of the kinds of rabbit bred at Mr. Harrisons is the hare rab-bit, mentioned in the Encyclopccdia of… … [Fig. 9. View from tlie Chinese Temple.I 67, Coach-house, with stairs to hay-loft. 68, Stable. 69, Mill-house, containing mills for bruising corn for poultry, a portableflour mill, a lathe, and grinding-machine for sharpening garden instru-ments and similar articles. In the Angel Inn in Oxford,…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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