Victorian gardens: The art of beautifying suburban home grounds (1870)
Scott, Frank J. (Frank Jesup), 1828-1919 · [n.p.] D. Appleton & Co. · leaf 91
the attention ofAmericans of the highest culture, to whom we can turn for profes-sional work in ground designs; who, as Pope describes one— Consults the genius of the place in allThat tells the waters or to rise or fall ;Or helps the ambitious hill the heavens to scale,Or scoops in circling… … CHAPTER XI. ARRANGEMENT IN PLANTING. THOUGH set rules, in matters of art, are sometimes more honored in the breach than in the observance,it is also true that every art has certain general prin-ciples, the observance of which will rarely lead to greatfaults, while their violations may. We therefore…
