Victorian gardens: The art of beautifying suburban home grounds (1870)
Scott, Frank J. (Frank Jesup), 1828-1919 · [n.p.] D. Appleton & Co. · leaf 106
then lawn,shrubs and flowers should be its only verdant furniture. We class among shrubs many dwarf evergreens, which, be-cause they belong to species which usually attain large size, areincluded in nursery catalogues under the head of trees. Theywill be found classified in our Appendix. We also… … CHAPTER THE LAWN, Whether we look, or whether we listen,We hear life murmur, or see it glisten;Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers,And, groping blindly above it for light,Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers. Lowell. On each side shrinks the bowery…
