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 461
practised by gardeners as an evidence of care and goodkeeping. As much of the beauty of the walk depends upon the beauty ofits boundary, the feeling that this boundary is likely to be disturbed everytime the walk is cleaned, or the adjoining turf mown, is extremely disa-greeable. The freshiy pared… … fFig. 19. View across the Water, looking towards the House., but which, by the paring, is obtruded on the eye, so as to destroy all allu-sion to stability. We are displeased with the paring of the edges, becauseit conveys the idea that the walks are not finished, or that they are liableto be…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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