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praktischen Anwendung in Muskau. Stuttgart, Hallberger, 1834. 16° text 

 and folio atlas, including plans. (Also later editions.) 



Considerable portions are translated in Samuel Parsons' Art of Landscape Architecture. A complete 

 English translation edited by Mr. Parsons with selected illustrations is being published by the 

 Houghton, Mifflin Company of Boston. There is also an earlier manuscript translation in the 

 Codman Collection at the Boston Public Library. 



Repton, Humphrey. 



Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening. Collected from designs and ob- 

 servations now in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for 

 whose use they were originally made. The whole tending to establish fixed 

 principles in the art of laying out ground. London, Printed by W. Bulmer and 

 Co. [1794] 83 pages and xvi plates, with movable slips showing present and 

 proposed conditions. 



Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. . . . Lon- 

 don, Printed for J. Taylor, 1803. 222 pages, illus., including plates similar 

 to above. 

 Both the Sketches and Observations are included with Repton's other works in a one-volume edition 

 (1840) by J. C. Loudon. A briefer American edition prepared by John Nolen appeared in 1907. 



Van Rensselaer, M. G. (Mrs. Schuyler). 



Art Out-of-doors. Hints on good taste in gardening. New York, C. Scribner's 

 Sons, 1893. 399 pages. (Also later reprints.) 

 Written to stimulate a more general appreciation of the landscape art. 



Whately, Thomas. 



Observations on Modern Gardening. Published anonymously, London, 1770. 

 (Several later editions. Also translated into French.) 

 Called the first systematic treatise on the subject. 



HISTORY AND HISTORIC STYLES 



Amherst, Hon. Alicia. 



A History of Gardening in England. London, B. Quaritch, 1895. 400 pages, 

 illus. plans. (Also later editions.) 

 Contains a chronological list of books on English gardening. 



Chambers, Sir William. 



A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening. London, Printed by W. Griffin, 1772. 

 94 pages. (Also a 2d edition, to which is annexed an explanatory discourse by 

 Tan Chet-qua, of Quang-chew-fu, Gent. Also French and German translations.) 



Relates to Chinese landscape gardening. It has been alleged that this book was written partly 

 as a solemn joke at the expense of the enthusiastic Landscapists of the day. 



