Title: Beautifying country homes. A handbook of landscape gardening. Illustrated by plans of places already improved.
Authors: Weidenmann, Jacob, 1830-1893.; Bencke, Herman,; Orange Judd & Company,; Lovejoy & Son,
Publisher: O. Judd
Year: 1870
Subjects: Landscape gardening.; Landscape architecture Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Landscape gardening Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Contents: Contents: Part I. Landscape architecture -- General suggestions -- Lawns -- Seeding down lawns and pastures -- Top-dressing lawns -- Drainage -- Roads and drives -- Walks -- Laying out curved lines for walks or roads -- Practical hints on grading -- Fences, walls, and hedges -- Trees and shrubs -- Grouping -- Transplanting trees and shrubs -- Flower garden -- Water -- Ornaments -- Rock-work -- Tools used in laying out grounds -- Improving new places economically -- Arbitrary calculation of cost -- Care and keeping of ornamental grounds -- Front yards of city lots -- Hints on burial lots -- (Part II. Plans of improved places.) Plate I. Plan of two suburban residences at Albany, N.Y. -- Plate II. Plan of a country house near Chicago, Ill., the property of A.E. Taylor, Esq. -- Plate III. Suburban residence of E.B. Cooley, Esq., near Boston, Mass. -- Plate IV. Suburban residence of Hon. Geo. Beach, Hartford, Conn. -- Plate V. Public Green, Hartford, Conn. --^