Book: A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, adapted to North America,1841

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