Appendix 



essays, ought to be on the shelf of everyone 

 who loves either good gardens or good liter- 

 ature. Temple, Walpole, Whately, the elder 

 Gilpin, Price, and Repton are EngHsh au- 

 thors indispensable to the American ama- 

 teur of gardening or friend of Nature. 

 Downing, the father of American landscape- 

 gardening, should of course be especially 

 honored ; and in addition to those books of 

 his which occur in the following list, I can 

 recommend, as filled with interesting and 

 instructive reading, the bound volumes of 

 the Horticulturaltst^ a magazine which 

 he conducted for seven years, and which, 

 when his untimely death in 1852 meant its 

 death also, had no worthy American suc- 

 cessor until Garden and Forest was estab- 

 lished. Downing's ideas upon rural archi- 

 tecture are not always to be commended, 

 but no wiser or pleasanter pen than his has 

 written about the art of landscape-gardening. 



Edouard Andre's is, I am sure, the best 

 modern practical treatise upon gardening art 

 which exists in any language, and it is very 

 interesting to the general reader as showing 

 how an artist works, and well explaining the 



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