Victorian gardens: The art of beautifying suburban home grounds (1870)
Scott, Frank J. (Frank Jesup), 1828-1919 · [n.p.] D. Appleton & Co. · leaf 76
t field-chequered farm, areall our own if we choose to make them so. As H. W. Beecherpithily puts it: Mens eyes make finer pictures, when they knowhow to use them, than anybodys hands can. To shut ones placeout of view of one or all of these things, by planting it full of lit-tle trees and little… … or beauty, which have been completely shut out of view by planta-tions of trees and shrubs, in consequence of the ill-directed zealof the master or mistress of the houseto fill our yard with beautiful things.Fig. 18 is a view out of the narrow side-light of a friends bay-window. It scarcelytakes in…
