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++++ A Treatise On The Theory And Practice Of Landscape Gardening,
Adapted To North America: With A View To The Improvement Of Country
Residences. With Remarks On Rural Architecture 7 Andrew Jackson
Downing, Henry Winthrop Sargent O. Judd, 1865 Architecture;
Landscape; Architecture / Landscape; Architecture, Domestic;
Gardening / Landscape; Landscape gardening
This 1841 work by the American landscape designer and writer Andrew
Jackson Downing (1815-52), reissued here in its 1849 fourth
edition, was the first such book published in the United States.
Downing, the son of a nurseryman, saw that a 'taste for rural
improvements of every description is advancing silently, but with
great rapidity in this country', and he aims to provide the
prosperous east-coast dweller with a guide to beautifying his
surroundings. The emphasis is on landscape and overall effects
rather than the minutiae of gardening, with chapters on
plantations, specimen trees, and the construction of walks, water
features, and other architectural elements. Downing went on to edit
The Horticulturist magazine and to work on significant landscape
projects, including the grounds of the White House and the
surroundings of the Smithsonian Institution, before he was
tragically killed, aged only 36, in an explosion on a river
steamer.
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