Leaves from the Garden
Subtitle: Two Centuries of Garden Writing
Contributors: Caroline Boisset (Editor)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: May 1987
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9780393024517
First sentence: In the execution of my profession, I have often experienced great difficulty and opposition in attempting to correct the false and mistaken taste for placing a large house in a naked grass-field, without any apparent line of separation between the ground exposed to cattle and the ground annexed to the house, which I consider as peculiarly under the management of art.