Cottage residences; or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds : adapted to North America (1873)
Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852 · New York : J. Wiley & Son · leaf 330
should be planted with a single kind of flower, or, what is still better, with one kind of flower for the bed, but a border or margin of another kind — when the bed is wide enough to permit it. [A charming garden is composed entirely of the new variegated leaf geraniums in stripes or ribbons. — h.… … Fig. 143.
Architecture, Domestic
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