Cottage residences, or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds adapted to North America (1863)
Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852, author · New York : John Wiley · leaf 247
parterre, when the grass is wet with dew, without being obliged to walk upon the damp lawn. Of course, each bed here 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… … Another very tasteful design for a small flower garden is shown at Fig. 97. This consists of 8 arabesque beds,B , cut in 13
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