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Landscape gardening, or, Parks and pleasure grounds :with practical notes on country residences, villas, public parks, and gardens /by Charles H.J. Smith ; with notes and additions by Lewis F. Allen.

Collection Type

  • Books and periodicals

GUSN

GUSN-265395

Description

xii, 367, 10 p. ; 20 cm.

Details

Descriptive Terms

Landscape gardening.
Architecture, Domestic.

Originator

Smith, Charles H. J.
Allen, Lewis F. (Lewis Falley), 1800-1890.

Contents

The house and offices -- The approach -- Pleasure-grounds and flower-gardens -- The park -- Ornamental characters of trees, detached and in combination -- Planting -- Fences of the park and pleasure-grounds -- Water -- The kitchen, fruit, and foreign gardens -- Public parks and gardens -- The villa -- General observations on the laying-out and improvement of grounds -- The arboretum -- The pinetum.

Publication

New York : C.M. Saxton

Description

xii, 367, 10 p. ; 20 cm.

Notes

Advertisements on p. [1]-10 at end.
Includes index.
Gift of Arleyn Levee, 2011.

Call Number

Hav. Archives SB451.S615 1853

Variant Title

Parks and pleasure grounds
Landscape gardening, parks and pleasure grounds

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