Victorian gardens: The art of beautifying suburban home grounds (1870)
Scott, Frank J. (Frank Jesup), 1828-1919 · [n.p.] D. Appleton & Co. · leaf 67
and trees planted on the sidewalkon both sides of the road, expand their tops so as to obstruct aview of the street, and so close to the house that their beauty can-not be seen. It is recommended that such streets have but onerow of trees, and that in the middle of the road, where a strip ofgrass,… … CHAPTER VIM. MATERIALS USED IN DECORATIVE PLANTING. THERE are no vegetable productions in Nature which,when thoroughly observed and understood, are not beau-tiful, Few plants are more beautiful than the thistle.Most weeds will elicit our admiration if their forms,growth, and structure are carefully…
