APPENDIX. 



SOME BOOKS ON LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



The literature of landscape gardening is not exten- 

 sive, but choice. Probably the best things, from the 

 literary standpoint, connected with agriculture, horti- 

 culture and rural affairs, are by all odds the books and 

 essays which deal with picture gardening. With this 

 literature the earnest student or ambitious practical gar- 

 dener will naturally wish to acquaint himself. For this 

 reason there are here given a few references to the most 

 useful and accessible works on the subject. The list is 

 not at all full. Those who care for an extended bibli- 

 ography of the subject may consult Mrs. Van Eensselaer's 

 admirable book, *'Art out of Doors," and also Mr. 

 Henry Sargent Codman's notes in Vol. Ill (1890) of 

 Garden and Forest. 



Many of the best short essays on landscape garden- 

 ing subjects are to be found in the volumes of our 

 American horticultural journals. The old volumes of 

 Downing's Horticulturist, of Garden and Forest, Amer- 

 ican Gardening and Pojmlar Gardening are especially 

 rich in matter of this sort. The classical essays of 

 Andrew Jackson Downing, afterward collected and 

 edited by George William Curtis for the volume of Rural 

 Essays, appeared first as editorials in the Horticulturist; 

 and the editorials of Professor Sargent and Mr. Stiles in 

 Garden and Forest have, many of them, an equal per- 

 manent literary and technical value. The man or 

 woman who is interested in following out the literature 

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