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 453
stribute the same accommodation, properlyclassed, along the sides of a square or squares, or along the sides of a par-allelogram or polygon, and either detached from, or connected with, thehorticultural buildings. The manner in which the working-sheds are heated by the waste heatfrom the furnaces,… … [Fig. 16. Hermili Seal, and Clastical Vine.) is worthy of imitation ; as is the mode of heating so many different housesfrom only three boilers. In no garden structures have we seen a more ju-dicious use of the Penryhn slate; paths, edgings, shelves, cisterns, boxesfor plants, copings, kerbs,…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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