CONTENTS 



PART I 



PAGE 



BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 1822-1903 I 



PART II 



EARLY EXPERIENCES: THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO HIS LATER 



CAREER 



CHAPTER 



I. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PASSAGES .... 43 



II. EARLY PLEASURE TOURS .... 64 



III. STUDY AND READING 68 



IV. FARMING 75 



V. LANDSCAPING 84 



VI. RELATIONS WITH DOWNING . . . .88 



VII. LANDSCAPE OBSERVATIONS FROM EUROPEAN 



TRAVEL 94 



VIII. SOUTHERN TRIPS, 1852-1854 . . . . in 

 IX. REPUTATION IN 1857 117 



PART III 

 AMERICAN LANDSCAPE GARDENING IN 1857 . -121 



XI 



