A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, adapted to North America
Subtitle: 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 to the house and grounds, the formation of pieces of artificial water, flower gardens, etc. : with remarks on rural architecture
Edition: Fourth edition, enlarged, revised, and newly illustrated / by A.J. Downing, author of Designs for cottage residences, etc.
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II
Publisher: George P. Putnam; Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans
Published: 1849
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 532
Subjects: Landscape gardening; Country homes; Landscape architecture; Suburban homes; Trees
Notes: "Insult not nature with absurd expense, nor spoil her simple charms by vain pretence, weigh well the subject, he with caution bold, profuse of genius, not profuse of gold."

Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.