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 458
have been entirely exclu-ded from either near or distant view, and the eye carried so as not to catcha view of the grounds of the field nearer than one hundred yards or more atthe least, if the larustinuses had not suffered so severely in 1837-38 ; butthese will, by next year, and by trees already… … [Fig. 18. Garden From of Cliesbunl Collage. lessen the force of it, as future appearances will, he thinks, prove W. H. The trees and shrubs on the lawn are almost all disposed in the garden-esque manner ; that is, so that each individual plant may assume its naturalshape and habit of growth. The…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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