Chapter 4: Private and Public Landscape Gardens

• Designing a complete residence
• Mansion, demesne, villa farm and cottage
• The mansion and demesne
• The villa is a small mansion
• The marine villa has teraces and views
• The shooting or hunting box is a small villa
• The ferme ornee, or villa farm
• A parsonage
• The parochial schoolmaster's house
• A cottage ornee is a villa on a small scale
• The suburban villa
• The suburban house
• The labourer's cottage and garden
• Cottage accommodation
• Size of a cottage garden plot
• Garden compartments
• Encyclopﾵdia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture
• General principles for laying out villas
• General principles for walks through shrubberies and pleasure-grounds
• The general principles for planning cottages
• Public gardens designed for recreation, instruction or commercial purposes
• Public parks, or equestrian promenades
• Boulevards
• Public gardens, or pedestrian promenades
• Public squares
• General principles for public gardens
• Botanic gardens
• Extent of botanic gardens
• The form of a botanic garden
• Layout of botanic gardens
• Components of a complete botanic garden
• Compartments in botanic gardens
• Phanerogamous plants, including hardy exotic trees and natives
• Jussieuean or Linnﾵan arrangement of botanic gardens
• Botanical arrangement in hothouses
• Public nursery gardens
• Florists' gardens
• Market gardens
• Commercial gardens

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