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 340
234 COTTAGE EESIDEN^CES. alone, or grouped with other circles. It is also adapted to any position, which an irregular bed is not. In order to give the lawn, c, a more picturesque charac- ter, we have introduced a few single specimens of trees, such as grow into beautiful forms when standing alone. … Fig. 147. "We may mention, as peculiarly adapted to such sites, the Chinese Magnolias {M, consjpicua and M, soulangiand)^ very hardy and beautiful ; the Weeping Ash, Weeping Beech, Purple Beech, and Weeping Silver Lime, all strik- ing in habit and foliage ; the Ash-leaved Maple or Negun- do, for…
Architecture, Domestic
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