Landscape Gardening and Rural Architecture

by Andrew Jackson Downing

Richly illustrated monograph by leading American horticulturist, landscape gardener and architect provides amateurs with ideas, information and plans for developing gardens and grounds on models of great mid-19th-century rural residences in fashion along the Atlantic coast. Topics include selecting and planting trees, vines, shrubs; laying out drives, paths, walks; creating ponds and lakes, much more.

Paperback

Published January 1, 1991

About the author

American architect and horticulturist Andrew Jackson Downing wrote the classic A Treatise on Landscape Gardening (1841) and designed the grounds of the White House and the Capitol of the United States.

He prominently advocated the Gothic revival and edited The Horticulturist magazine from 1846 to 1852. People consider this founder.

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