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 English 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 Horticulturalist , 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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