Victorian gardens: The art of beautifying suburban home grounds (1870)
Scott, Frank J. (Frank Jesup), 1828-1919 · [n.p.] D. Appleton & Co. · leaf 262
earance of primness. It is as unnatural to force the rose intoformal outlines as to suppress the frolicksomeness of children; butin both cases the freedom natural to each may be directed, andmade to conform, to the proprieties of place and occasion. Allu-sion has previously been made to the bad… … CHAPTER XVIII. THE PHILOSOPHY OP DEEP DRAINAGE AND CULTIVATION IN THETRRELATION TO THE GROWTH OF TREES, AND THE SUCCESSFUL CUL-TURE OF THOSE WHICH ARE HALF-HARDY; TOGETHER WITH SUGGES-TIONS FOR PROTECTING YOUNG TREES IN WD5TTER AND SUMMER. A LARGE portion of the gross weight of all soils is…