HAND BOOK 



OF PRACTICAL 



LANDSCAPE GARDENING 



OESlaNSD FOB 



CITY AND SUBURBAN RESIDENCES, 

 AND COUNTRY SCHOOL-HOUSES, 



OONTAININa 



DESIGNS FOE LOTS AND GEOTJNDS, 



From a lot 30 x 100 feet to a 40 acre plot. 



Each plan is draum to a scale, with schedule to eOrCh, showing where each TVee, 

 , Shrub, etc. , should be planted. Also, Condensed Instructions of hov) to form 

 Lawnx, and the care thereof; the Building of Roads, Twrfmg, 

 Protection of Trees, Pruning and care of, making Cuttings, 

 Maergreens, Hedges, Screens, etc. ; Perennials, Herbaceous 

 Plamts, etc. Also, Condensed Descriptions of all the 

 leering Trees and Shrubs, with rema/rhs as to soU 

 and position in which they should be grown. 

 Illustrations not only of the Ground Plama 

 and M&iations are gvoen, but Illustra- 

 tions of various Trees, Shrubs, 

 Winter Gardening, etc. 



BY F. R. ELLIOTT, 



LANDSCAPE GARDENER AND POMOLOGIST. 



D. M. DEWEY, 

 Horticultural Books, Arcade Hall, Rochester, N. Y. 



1877. 



