6 THE YEAR-BOOK OF AGRICULTURE. 



enumerate, with the citation of some opinions upon their merits, should be in the possession 

 of all who love flowers, and can appreciate the pleasures connected with refined taste. 



1. A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, adapted to North Ame- 

 rica, with a view to the Improvement of Country Residences. With Remarks on Rural Archi- 

 tecture, New York, 1841, 8vo. Sale in America to 1863, 9000 copies. 



" Mr. Downing has here produced a very delightful work, and has convinced us that sound 

 criticism and refined taste are not confined to this side of the Atlantic." London Art Union 

 Journal. 



"A masterly work. * * * We havw quoted largely from this work, because in so doing 

 we think we shall give a just idea of the greut merit of the author." London, editor ofRepton's 

 Landscape- Gardening. 



"On the whole, we know of no work in which the fundamental principles of this profession 

 are so well or so concisely expressed. * * * No English landscape-gardener has written 

 so clearly or with so much real intensity." Dr. Lindley, in the Gardeners' Chronicle. 



" The standard work on this subject." Silliman's Journal. 



2. Cottage Residences, 1842, 8vo. Sale in America to 1853, 6250 copies. 

 "It cannot fail to be of great service." London. 



"We stretch our arm across the 'big water' to tender our Yankee coadjutor an English 

 shake and a cordial recognition." An English Horticultural Critic. 



3. The Fruits and Fruit-Trees of America, 1845, 8vo. Sale in America to 1853, 15,000 

 copies. 



" Downing's Fruits and Fruit-Trees of America deserves to be more generally known in 

 Europe." Triibncr's Bibliographical Guide to American Literature, Lon., 1855, 12mo. 



4. Hints to Young Architects, by George Wightwick, Architect; with additional Notes and 

 Hints to Persons about building in this country, by A. J. Downing, 1849, 8vo. 



5. The Architecture of Country-Houses ; including Designs for Colleges, Farm-Houses, and 

 Villas, 1850, 8vo. Sale in America to 1853, 3500 copies. 



6. Mrs. London's Gardening for Ladies ; edited by A. J. Downing, 1852, 12mo. 



7. Rural Essays, by the late A. J. Downing, edited by George Wm. Curtis, with a Memoir 

 of the Author ; and a Letter to his Friends, by Frederika Bremer, 1853, 8vo. This work con- 

 tains, with one or two exceptions, all of Mr. Downing's editorial papers in the Horticulturist. 



A few additional testimonies to the eminent services rendered by Downing to the beautiful 

 pursuits in which he found such enthusiastic enjoyment may properly conclude this notice : 



" Mr. Wilder says that a gentleman ' who is eminently qualified to form an enlightened judg- 

 ment' declared that much of the improvement that has taken place in this country during the 

 last twelve years, in rural architecture and in ornamental gardening and planting, may be 

 ascribed to him, ^Downing.] Another gentleman, speaking of suburban cottages in the Wst, 

 gays I asked the origin of so much taste, and was told it might principally be traced to 

 Downing's Cottage Residences and the Horticulturist.' " Memoir, by G. W. Curti.*. 



" By these admirable works, [Fruits and Fruit-Trees of America, and Landscape-Garden- 

 ing and Rural Architecture,] Mr. Downing has done much to promote the best and most judi- 

 cious selection and culture of fruit-trees. It is one of the most common and earnest long- 

 ings of the toiling residents of cities to be able one day to return to a snuggery in the 

 country ; and these admirable works will both minister to these longings, and teach how to 

 realize them satisfactorily." President King, of Columbia College, New York. 



For the above carefully-prepared sketch of A. J. Downing, we are indebted to S. Austin 

 Allibone, Esq., of Philadelphia, author of that very valuable work, the "Critical Dictionary 

 of English Literature and British and American Authors." Ed. Year-Book. 



