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 84
terized and divided by plantations, that the whole shall ap- ON WOOD AND PLANTATIONS. 73 pear to be much larger than it really is, from the fact that thespectator is never allowed to see the whole at a single glance;but while each portion is complete in itself, the plan shallpresent nothing… … [Fig. 8. Plan of a Suburban Villa Residence. 1 10 74 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. lington, New-Jersey, (which we shall again refer to,) wasbuilt, and the grounds, about six or eight acres in extent, laidout, from the designs of John Notman, Esq. architect, of Phi-ladelphia; and while the latter give a…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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