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ELIOT, CHARLES WILLIAM. 



Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect, a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained 

 himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much 

 good. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1902. 770 pages in 2 v. or i. illus. 

 plans. (Also later reprints.) New printing by Harvard University Press, 1925. 



A biography, including letters, professional papers, and reports, which contain discussions of general 

 theory and practice. 



HlRSCHFELD, CHRISTIAN CAYUS LoRENZ. 



Theorie der Gartenkunst. Leipzig, Weidmann und Reich, 1775-1780 and 1779- 



1785. 5 v. illus. (French translation issued by the same publishers, 1779-1785.)) 



An extensive treatise by one of the continental "Landscape School." 



HUBBARD, HENRY VINCENT, AND THEODORA KIMBALL. 



An Introduction to the Study of Landscape Design. New York, The Macmillan 

 Co., 1917. 406 pages and 36 plates, illus. plans. (Also later reprints.) 



LOUDON, JOHN CLAUDIUS. 



An Encyclopaedia of Gardening, comprising the theory and practice of horticul- 

 ture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape gardening. . . . London, Long- 

 man, Hurst, etc., 1822. 1469 pages, illus. plans. (Also many later editions, 

 from 1850 as revised and improved by Mrs. Loudon.) 



Part I : Gardening considered in respect to its Origin, Progress, and present State among different 

 Nations, Governments, and Climates, treats the history and theory of landscape design. 



MAWSON, THOMAS H. 



The Life and Work of an English Landscape Architect : an autobiography 

 New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1927. 368 pages, illus. plans. 



MEYER, FRANZ SALES, AND FRIEDRICH RIES. 



Die Gartenkunst in Wort und Bild. Leipzig, C. Scholtze, 1904 and enlargec 

 1914. illus. plans. (Published in 1911 as Gartentechnik und Gartenkunst.) 

 Somewhat similar in scope to Andre, although less extensive. 



OLMSTED, FREDERICK LAW, SR. 



Forty Years of Landscape Architecture, being the professional papers of Frederic! 

 Law Olmsted, Sr. Edited by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., and Theodora Kimball 

 New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons. vol. I, Early Years, 1922. 131 pages, illuj 

 vol. 2, Central Park. 1928. 575 pages, illus. plans. 



PARSONS, SAMUEL. 



The Art of Landscape Architecture; its development and its application t 

 modern landscape gardening. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1915. 347 P a g e! 

 illus. 



A compilation from the older writers, arranged by subjects, from the point of view of naturalist 



design. 



