HAND BOOK 



OF PRACTICAL 



LANDSCAPE GARDENING 



DZ8IGNXD KOB 



CITY AND SUBURBAN RESIDENCES, 



AND COUNTRY SCHOOL-HOUSES, 



CONTAINING 



DESIGNS FOR LOTS AND GROUNDS, 



From a lot 30 x 100 feet to a 40 acre plot. 



Fjirh plan is drawn to a scale, with schedule to each, showing where each Tree, 

 Shrub, etc. , thould be plank <l. Also, Condensed Instructions of haw to form 

 Laxrns, and the care thereof; the Building of Roads, Turfing, 

 Protection of Treee, Pruning and care of, making Cuttings, 

 E ver g r e ens, Hedges, Screens, etc.; Perennials, Herbaceous 

 Plants, etc. Also, < Jond\ need Descriptions of all the 

 leading 7' Shrubs, icitli remarks as to soil 



and position in which titty should be grown. 

 Illustration* not only of the Ground Plans 

 and Eli cations a it given, but Illustra- 

 tions cf various Trees, Shrubs, 

 Winter Gardening, etc. 



BY F. R. ELLIOTT, 



LANDSCAPE GARDENER AND POMOLOGIST. 



D. M. DEWEY, 

 Horticultural Books, Arcade Hall, Rochester, N. Y. 



1877. 



