A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening

With a View to the Improvement of Country Residences, Comprising Historical Notices and General Principles of the Art

By:

Andrew Jackson Downing

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture

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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.

Release date NZ

November 22nd, 2018

Author

Andrew Jackson Downing

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

18 Plates, black and white; 95 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

570

Series

Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture

Dimensions

153x226x39

ISBN-13

9781108083294

Product ID

26861292

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