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 95
rticularly with theGrecian architecture, now so fashionable in this country.Near such edifices, sparingly introduced, and tningled i7ismall proportion ivith round-headed trees, they contrast ad-vantageously with the long cornices, flat roofs, and horizontallines, that predominate in their exterior.… … [Fig. 13. Poplttrs in excess. criminately employed, or even used in any considerable propor-tion in the decoration of the ground immediately adjoining abuilding of any pretensions, they would inevitably defeat this
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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