CONTENTS. 
SECTION I. 
HISTORICAL SKETCHES. 
Objects of the art. Origin of the modern and natural style. Influence 
of the English poets and writers. Examples of the art abroad. Land- 
scape Gardening in North America, and examples now existing. 
SECTION II. 
BEAUTIES OE LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
Capacities of the art. The beauties of the ancient style. The Beautiful 
and the Picturesque. Nature and principles of Landscape Gardening as 
an imitative art. The Production of Beautiful Landscape. Of Picturesque 
do. Simple beauty of the art. The principles of Unity, Harmony, ana 
Variety. 
SECTION III. 
WOOD AND PLANTATIONS. 
The beauty of trees in rural embellishments. Pleasure resulting from 
their cultivation. Plantations in the ancient style. In the modern style. 
Grouping trees. Arrangement and grouping in the Graceful school. In 
the Picturesque school. Illustrations in planting villa, ferme orn6e, and 
cottage grounds. General classification of trees as to forms, with leading 
characteristics of each class. 
SECTION IV. 
DECIDUOUS ORNAMENTAL TREES. 
The history and description of all the finest hardy deciduous trees. 
Remarks on their effects in Landscape Gardening, individually and in 
composition ; their cultivation, etc. 
SECTION V. 
EVERGREEN ORNAMENTAL TREES. 
The history and description of all the finest hardy evergreen trees. 
Remarks on their effects in Landscape Gardening, individually and in 
composition. Their cultivation, etc. 
