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 80
age as ordinary farm land. The public road, a, is the boun-dary on one side: dd are prettily wooded dells or ravineswhich, together with a few groups near the proposed site ofthe house, c, and a few scattered single trees, make up theaggregate of the original woody embellishments of the lo-cality.… … [Fig- 6. Plan of the foregoing grounds as a Counuy Seal afler ten years improvement J out and planted, with several years growth. At a, the ap-proach road leaves the public highway, and leads to thehouse at c; from whence paths of smaller size, b, make thecircuit of the ornamental portion of the…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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