A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, adapted to North America,1841 > Section X. Embellishments; Architectural, Rustic, and Floral
Section X. Embellishments; Architectural, Rustic, and Floral
- Contents of Section 10 - rustic and floral architectural embellishments
- Quotations from Cowper and Milton
- Unity of architecture and grounds
- Flower gardens on terraces
- Connection between house and garden
- Beautiful foreground view from the terrace
- Highly decorated terraces
- Width of terraces
- Terraces for small cottages
- Urns, vases and sundials on terraces
- Stone, marble, iron and granite vases
- Plinths and pedestals for vases
- Gothic and Grecian vases
- Pottery vases by Peake of Staffordshire
- Maltese stone vases on the Hudson
- Vases planted with flowering plants - criticism
- Baskets and urns of rustic work
- Sundials
- Architectural flower gardens
- General flower gardens
- Different types of flower garden
- Irregular flower gardens
- Flower gardens for the Rural Gothic style
- Symmetrical flower gardens
- French flower-gardens
- English flower-gardens
- Flower garden at Dropmore
- Summer bedding plants
- Winter and spring flower beds
- Summer and winter flowers
- Bedding plants from reserve gardens
- English cottage flower gardens
- Personal taste in flower gardens
- All-year flowering gardens
- Mingled flower gardens
- Flowering times and flower colors
- Perennial and annual hardy flower borders
- Hardy perennial flowers for April, in America
- Hardy perennial flowers for May, in America
- Hardy perennial flowers for June, in America
- Hardy perennial flowers for July, in America
- Hardy perennial flowers for August, in America
- Hardy perennial flowers for September and October, in America
- Shrubbery flowers
- Shrub planting in pleasure grounds
- Separating a pleasure ground from a park
- Conservatory in Brooklyn, New York
- Conservatories for Grecian and Gothic villas
- Greenhouses and plant cabinets for cottages
- Open and covered garden seats
- Architectural and rustic seats
- Locations for architectural and rustic seats
- Latticed arbors for vines and seats
- Temple pavilions for covered seats
- Rustic seats for cottage residences
- Rustic arbor with thatched roof
- Covered seat with minerals and shells
- Moss house arbors
- Prospect towers
- Parmentier garden near Brooklyn
- Rustic prospect tower with thatched roof
- Ferme ornee and ice house
- Garden Bridges
- Architectural stone and timber bridges
- Decorative rockwork
- Rockwork scenery with moss and lichen
- Rockwork with alpine plants
- Rockwork for lakes, ponds and brooks
- Limestone rock gardens
- Picturesque rockwork
- Garden fountains in America
- Natural and artifical water supply for fountains
- Steam engines and hydraulic rams for fountains
- Cisterns and pipework for fountains
- Reservoirs for fountains
- Candelabra fountain jets
- Weeping Tazza Fountains
- Rustic fountains
- Highly artificial architectural fountains
- Good taste in landscape gardening
- Unity of expression in landscape gardening
- Harmony between summer houses, seats and grottoes