i8g6. 



GARDENING. 



77 



both for many years — broccoli has no ad- 

 vantage over cauliflower in the matter of 

 easiness of cultivation, certainly of head- 

 ing, or immunity from club-root or other 

 root disease. 



Miscellaneous. 



WRITINGS ON LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



There is no American text book that is 

 correct in principle and at the same time 

 adequate to guide one in meeting the many 

 practical questions that are constantly 

 arising in the practice of the profession. 

 Downing's works are, without doubt, the 

 most valuable. The books that state 

 most clearly and concisely the principles 

 of the profession were published in Eng- 

 land about 100 years ago, and they were 

 written at a time when there was a high 

 appreciation of the work of the trained 

 landscape gardener. 



The books that Mr. Frederick Law 

 Olmsted referred to his pupils to read 

 first, were the following, which are men- 

 tioned in about the order that they were 

 to be taken up: 



Wheatley's "Observations on Modern 

 Gardening." 



Sir Uvedale Price's "On the Pictur- 

 esque." 



Allison on "Taste " 



Gilpin's works and Repton's. 



Of the American \V. rks, his preference 

 was for those of A. J. Downing. 



The late Henry Sargent Codtnan pre- 

 pared a condensed list of the more note- 

 worthy books in the American Florist of 

 April 1st, 1890 (Volume 5, page 398.) 



If one were to select a dozen books from 

 this list, I would recommend the follow- 

 ing: 



Horace Walpole's "History ot the 

 Modern Taste in Gardening " Straw- 

 berry Hill, 1762-1771. 



[concluded on page 78 ] 



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