Pioneers of American Landscape Design: An Annotated Bibliography

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Charles A. Birnbaum, Lisa E. Crowder
U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Cultural Resources, Preservation Assistance Division, Historic Landscape Initiative, 1993 - Broj stranica: 142

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Stranica 103 - The Silva of North America. A description of the Trees which grow naturally in North America, exclusive of Mexico.
Stranica 42 - City Document.— No. 5. An Address delivered before the City Government, and Citizens of Roxbury, on Occasion of the Death of Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United States, April 19, 1865.
Stranica 129 - Report on the organization and management of seven agricultural schools in Germany, Belgium, and England.
Stranica 109 - Until women took up landscaping, gardening in this country was at its lowest ebb. The renaissance of the art was due largely to the fact that women, instead of working over their boards, used plants as if they were painting pictures, and as a artist would."14 Although Shipman's plans were quite formal, she followed no single historical pattern.
Stranica 42 - Boston, 1831. 8° WARD, MATTHEW F. Letters from three Continents. . . Second edition. New York, 1851. 12° 2 ENGLISH Items : or, microscopic views of England and Englishmen. New York, 1853.
Stranica 126 - Hedges and evergreens: a complete manual for the cultivation, pruning, and management of all plants suitable for American hedging; especially the madura, or osage orange.
Stranica 10 - ANNALS OF HORTICULTURE IN NORTH AMERICA. For the year 1893. A witness of passing events and a record of progress. Comprising an account of the Horticulture of the Columbian Exposition.
Stranica 90 - ... nursery grounds. In his periodical catalogue, he arranged the hardy trees and shrubs that flourish in this latitude in classes, according to their height, etc., and published a short treatise on the superior claims of the natural, over the formal or geometric style of laying out grounds. In short, we consider M. Parmentier's labors and examples as having effected, directly, far more for landscape gardening in America, than those of any other individual whatever.
Stranica 103 - Some remarks upon the journey of Andre Michaux to the high mountains of Carolina in December 1788, in a letter addressed to Prof.
Stranica 16 - Remarks on the Dangers and Duties of Sepulture ; or security for the living, with respect and repose for the dead.

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