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 252
198 COTTAGE KESIDENCES. style. In this latter style the garden was always formal and geometric, and was generally placed close to one side of the house, usually under the drawing-room windows. Fig. 100 is an example of an Elizabethan flower garden, which we give … for the sake of variety. This garden is supposed to be sur- rounded by a parapet walk, G, “ which has piers at regular distances, surmounted by vases ; at each of the flights of steps there are two statues, one on each side of the entrance at the
Architecture, Domestic
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