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 74
ketch,(fig. 4), exhibits this place as improved agreeably to theprinciples of modern Landscape Gardening, not only in theplantations, but in the house, which appears tastefully alter-ed from a plain unmeaning parallelogram, to a simple oldEnglish cottage, and in the more graceful approach.… … [ Fig. 4. View of the same Residence improved.] Where there are large masses of wood to regulate and ar-range, much skill, taste and judgment, are requisite to enablethe proprietors to preserve only what is really beautiful andpicturesque, and to remove all that is superfluous. Most ofour native…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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