6 THE TEAS-BOOK OF AGRICULTURE. 



enumerate, with the citation of some opinions upon their merits, should be in the possession 

 of nil who love flowers, and can appreciate the pleasures connected with refined I 



1. A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscapc-Gardening, adapted to North Ame- 

 rica, with a view to the Improvement of Country Residences. Witfa Remarks on Rural Archi- 

 tecture, New V«>rk, 1841, 8vo. Sale in America to 1853, 9000 copies. 



'• Mr. Downing has here produced a very delightful work, and has convinced us that sound 

 criticism and refined taste are not confined to this side of the Atlantic." — London Art Union 

 Journal. 



• \ masterly work. * * * We have quoted largely from this work, because in so doing 

 we think we shall give a just idea of the great merit of the author." — Loudon, editor of Reptori s 

 Lamdteape- Gardening. 



"On the whole, we know of no work in which the fundamental principles of this profession 

 are so well or so concisely expressed. * * * No English landscape-gardener has written 

 SO clearly or with so much real intensity." — Dr. Lmttey, in the Gardeners' Chronicle. 



"The standard work on this subject." — Silliman's Journal. 



2. Cottage Residences, 1*12, 8vo. Sale in America to 1853, 6250 copies. 

 " It cannot fail to be of great service." — Jjoudon. 



"We Btretch our arm across the 'big water' to tender our Yankee coadjutor an English 

 shake an 1 a cordial recognition." — An English ll>rti<-ultural Critic. 



3. The Fruits and Fruit-Trees of America, 1845, 8vo. Sale in America to 1853, 15,000 

 copies. 



" Downing's Fruits and Fruit-Trees of America deserves to be more generally known in 

 Europe." — Tr'dhncis Bibliographical Guide to American Literature, Lon., 1865, 12mo. 



4. Hint- to Young Architects, by George Wightwiek, Architect; with additional Notes and 

 Hints to Persons al>out building in this country, by A. J. Downing, 1840, 8vo. 



5. The Architecture of Country-Houses ; including Designs for Colleges, Farm-Houses, and 

 Yillas, 1850, 8vo. Sale in America to 185::, •;"><)(» copies. 



6. Mrs. Loudon's Gardening for Ladies ; edited by A. J. Downing, 1 B52, 1 2mo. 



7. Rural l>says, by the late A. J. Downing, edited by George Wm. Curtis, with a Memoir 

 of the Author; and a Letter to his Friends, by Frederika Bremer, 18"i ■".. 8m Thi« work con- 

 tain-, with one or two exceptions, all of Mr. Downing's editorial papers in the Horticulturist, 



A few additional testimonies to the eminent services rendered by Downing to the beautiful 

 pursuits in which he found such enthusiastic enjoyment may properly conclude thi< notice: 



" Mr. Wilder sayi that a gentleman ' who i- eminently qualified to form an enlightened judg- 

 ment^ declared that much of the ImproTemenl that has taken place in this country during the 



]a-t tweb . in rural architecture and in ornamental gardening and planting, maybe 



ascribed to him, [Downing.] Another gentleman, speaking of suburban cottages in the West, 

 says — 'I asked the origin of bo much taste, and was told it migh( principally be traced to 

 Downing'- Cottage Residence* and the Horticulturist.'" — )t<>n<>ir, /-»/ (!. II'. Cvrtu. 



"I' admirable works, [Fruits and Frmt-Trees of America, and Lai Garden- 



big and Rural Architecture,] Mr. Downing has done much to promote the best ami most judi- 

 u end culture <■( fruit-trees, it i- one of the mod oommon and earnest long- 

 ingg of the toiling residenta of cities to i„. able one day to return to a Bnnggery in the 

 country ; and these admirable works will both minister to these longings, and teach how to 

 te them satisfactorily." — President K f Columbia College, A'. "■ York, 

 I the a'. \>- carefully-prepared sketch of A. J. Downing, we are Indebted to 8 Austin 

 Atlibone, Esq., of Philadelphia, author of that rery valuable work, the '•Critical Dictionary 

 r j_r]'i-h Literature and British and American Authors." — Ed. Year-Book. 



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