A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, adapted to North America : with a view to the improvement of country residences, comprising historical notices and general principles of the art, directions for laying out grounds and arranging plantations, the description and cultivation of hardy trees, decorative accompaniments of the house and grounds, the formation of pieces of artificial water, fower gardens, etc. : with remarks on rural architecture / by the late A.J. Downing, Esq.

Main entry:

Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852.

Title & Author:

Edition:

Seventh edition, enlarged, revised and newly illustrated, with a supplement, containing some remarks about country places, and the best methods of making them; also, an account of the newer deciduous and evergreen plants, lately introduced into cultivation, both hardy and half-hardy / y Henry Winthrop Sargent.

Publication:

New York : Orange Judd Agricultural Book Publisher, 1865, c1859.

Description:

xvi, 576 p. : ill., plans, port. ; 24 cm.

Notes:
First published in New York, 184l.
Plates are steel engravings by H.W. Smith; H. Jordan after H.J. Davis; J. Duthie and James Smillie after J.D. Smillie; Robert Hinshelwood after J.D. Smillie and E.W. Nichols, all signed in the plate. Also included are wood engravings and "engravings on stone" (cf. p. xvi).
"Supplement to the sixth edition..." by Sargent: p.[425]-572.

Exhibitions:

Exhibited: "La pelouse en Amérique: surface de la vie quotidienne = The American lawn: surface of everyday life", Centre canadien d'architecture, June 16-Nov. 8, 1998; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Apr. 3-June 7, 1999.

Subject:

Landscape gardening.
Architecture, Domestic.
Landscape architecture.
Ornamental trees.
Ornamental trees United States.
Landscape architecture United States.
Landscape gardening United States.
Jardins Architecture.
Architecture du paysage.
Arbres d'ornement.
Arbres d'ornement États-Unis.
Architecture du paysage États-Unis.
Jardins Architecture États-Unis.
landscape gardening.
United States.

Added entries:

Hinshelwood, Robert, 1812-1879.
Jordan, H.
Nichols, E. W.
Sargent, Henry Winthrop, 1810-1882.
Smillie, James, 1807-1885.
Smillie, James David, 1833-1909.
Smith, Henry W., engraver.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 185376
Call No.: 73
Status: Available

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