Andrew Jackson Downing
Subtitle: essential texts
By: edited by Robert Twombly
Contributors: Twombly, Robert C., editor of compilation
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780393733594
Subjects: Agriculture; Architecture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Architecture and building. Remarks on the fitness of the different styles of architecture for the construction of country residences, and on the employment of vases in garden scenery (1836); title: Hints on the construction of farm-houses (1846); title: The workingman's cottage (1846); title: On country houses (1846); title: Hints to persons about building in the country (1847); title: On the color of country houses (1847); title: On the moral influence of good houses (1848); title: A few words on our progress in building (1851); title: A short chapter on country churches (1851); title: Landscape gardening. Rural embellishments (1832); title: Notes on belts of trees in ornamental plantations (1842); title: A chapter on lawns (1846); title: Hints on flower-gardens (1847); title: How to choose a site for a country seat (1847); title: How to arrange country places (1850); title: The management of large country places (1851); title: A chapter on school houses (1848); title: Parks and other public places. A talk about public parks and gardens (1848); title: Public cemeteries and public gardens (1849); title: The New York park (1851); title: Village beautification. Trees in towns and villages (1847); title: On planting shade trees (1847); title: On the improvement of country villages (1849); title: Our country villages (1850); title: Horticulture. Some remarks on temperature considered in relation to vegetation and the naturalization of plants (1836); title: Notices on the state and progress of horticulture in the United States (1837); title: Great Horticultural Society of the Valley of the Hudson (1838); title: Some remarks on the superiority of native varieties of fruit (1847); title: The influence of horticulture (1847); title: American versus British horticulture (1852); title: Agricultural education. The national ignorance of the agricultural interest (1851); title: A chapter on agricultural schools (1849); title: Address on agricultural education (1851).