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 Cod man, 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 list 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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