The Art of Landscape Gardening (Paperback)

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• Publisher: General Books
• Number of Pages: 152
• ISBN: 1150712147
• WAPI (Tower ID): 114423421
• Release Date: October 2, 2010
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1907 Original Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company Subjects: Landscape architecture Landscape gardening Architecture / Landscape Gardening / General Gardening / Garden Design Gardening / Landscape Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Chapter I Introduction -- General Principles -- Utility - Scale -- Examples of Comparative Proportion- Use of Perspective THE theory and practice of landscape gardening have seldom fallen under the consideration of the same author; because those who have delivered their opinions in writing on this art have had little practical experience, and few of its professors have been able to deduce their rules from theoretical principles. To such persons indeed had its practice been committed that it required no common degree of fortitude and perseverance to elevate the art of landscape gardening to its proper rank and amongst those which distinguish the pleasures of civilised society from the pursuits of savage and barbarous nations. Not deterred by the sneer of ignorance the contradiction of obstinacy, the nonsense of vanity, or the prevalence of false taste, I made the attempt; and with the counsels and advice of men of science, and the countenance of some of the first characters in the kingdom, a very large portion of its scenery has been committed to my care for improvement. Hence it might be expected that, with some degree of confidence, I now should deliver the result of my observations; yet, from the difficulties continually increasing with my knowledge of the subject, I submit this work to the public with far more diffidence than I did my formervolume: because in this, as in every other study, reflectio...

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