A TREATISE 
3>1 
;£> 57 
ON THE 
THEORY AND PRACTICE 
OP 
LANDSCAPE GARDENING, 
ADAPTED TO 
H«rt| A in c r i c s 
WITH A VIEW TO THE 
IMPROVEMENT OF COUNTRY RESIDENCES. 
COMPRISING 
HISTORICAL NOTICES AND GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF THE ART, 
DIRECTIONS FOR LAYING OUT GROUNDS AND ARRANGING PLANTATIONS, THE 
DESCRIPTION AND CULTIVATION OF HARDY TREES, DECORATIVE 
ACCOMPANIMENTS OF THE HOUSE AND GROUNDS, 
THE FORMATION OF 
PIECES OF ARTIFICIAL WATER, FLOWER GARDENS, ETC. 
WITH 
REMARKS OK RURAL ARCHITECTURE. 
BY THE LATE A. J. DOWNING, ESQ. 
SIXTH EDITION, 
ENLARGED, REVISED, AND NEWLY ILLUSTRATED. 
WITH A SUPPLEMENT, 
CONTAINING SOME REMARKS ABOUT COUNTRY PLACES, AND THE BEST METHODS OF 
MAKING THEM; ALSO, AN ACCOUNT OF THE NEWER DECIDUOUS AND EVER- 
GREEN PLANTS, LATELY INTRODUCED INTO CULTIVATION, BOTH HARDY 
AND HALF-HARDY. 
B Y 
HENRY WINTHROP SARGENT. 
Neto Yodt : 
A. O. MOORE & CO. 
AGRICULTURAL BOOK PUBLISHERS, 140 FULTON STREET. 
1850, 
555thso«v^ 
MAY 0 3 1981 
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