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 336
230 COTTAGE EESIDENCES. out very minutely in tlie surroundings. Tlie flower gar- den, esjDecially, may partake of tliis cliaracter in some cases, and particularly in the Italian and the Elizabethan or Renaissance style. In this latter style the garden was always formal and geometric, and was… … Fig. 145. flower garden, which we give for the sake of variety. This garden is supposed to be surrounded by a parapet walk, o, "which has piers at regular distances, surmounted by vases ; at each of the flights of steps there are two statues,
Architecture, Domestic
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