Victorian gardens: The art of beautifying suburban home grounds (1870)
Scott, Frank J. (Frank Jesup), 1828-1919 · [n.p.] D. Appleton & Co. · leaf 23
f city houses; a step in advance of the Indian-likecraving for beads, jewelry, and feathers, which distinguishes thecity civilization of the present day. Choosing a home out of thecity simply because it can be secured more cheaply than in it, isnot the kind of plea for a suburban life which we… … CHAPTER IV. SUBUEBAN NEIGHBORHOODS COMPARED WITH COUNTRY PLACES. Twas town, yet country too; you felt the warmthOf clustering houses in the wintry time.—Geo. Eliot. LANDSCAPE GARDENING, on a grand scale, in thiscountry, is only to be accomplished in public parks and > cemeteries. Parks of…
