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 449
hich had suffered from any causes, or which were not im-mediately wanted, in what he called an hospital for these purposes. 13, A flower-garden, in which for several years a large Araucaria brasi-liensis stood out in the centre bed; but it was killed to the ground in thewinter of 1837-8. 14, The… … [F«. llj APPENDIX. 439
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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