BOOKS ON GARDENING ART 



O complete bibliography of books 

 relating to the art of landscape- 

 gardening existed in our lan- 

 guage, or, I think, in any other, 

 until one was compiled, three years ago, by 

 Henry Sargent Codman, the young land- 

 scape-gardener who died last winter, and 

 whose monument is the work he did, under 

 Mr. Olmsted's direction, on the Fair-grounds 

 at Chicago. This hst is a long one, cover- 

 ing all the books in English, French, Ger- 

 man, and Italian of which Mr. Codman 

 could learn in American and foreign libra- 

 ries, and which are of later date than Bacon's 

 famous essay. During the last two centuries 

 few books about formal gardening have been 

 written ; and the earlier literature of this 

 branch of the art must be sought chiefly in 

 works upon architecture, the connection be- 

 tween the two crafts being, of course, very 

 close before the development of naturalistic 



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