Landscape Gardening offers a practical guide to making land more beautiful and livable, with ideas you can apply at home, on a farm, or in public spaces.
The book explains the aims, principles, and methods behind shaping scenery that suits climate, land, and life, while emphasizing harmony with nature.
Drawing on historical and field experience, it discusses how to place a house for comfort and views, plan plantings that glow through the seasons, and manage trees, shrubs, water features, and roads. It also covers special topics like farm wood-lands, arid-region landscaping, and the care of plant materials, so readers can create lasting beauty that supports real-world needs.
Ideal for homeowners, farmers, and landscape enthusiasts seeking practical, design-minded guidance.
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This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.
Originally published in 1920. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.
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Vendeur : Forgotten Books, London, Royaume-Uni
Paperback. Etat : New. Print on Demand. This book is considered the groundbreaking text on landscape gardening. It's the first to establish principles for the practice of landscape gardening in the United States, drawing on the best available knowledge of the author's day. The topics covered include the aims of landscape gardening, the saving of natural features, planting materials, arrangement of planting, how to plant, home grounds, farms, landscape gardening for arid and semi-arid regions, public thoroughfares, parks, school grounds, arboretums, botanic gardens, and cemeteries. It also provides insight into the history and philosophical ideas that form the basis for the practice of landscape gardening. In doing so, the author reveals how good design principles can enhance the beauty of one's surroundings and personal enjoyment of outdoor spaces. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781330273715_0
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Vendeur : Revaluation Books, Exeter, Royaume-Uni
Paperback. Etat : Brand New. 358 pages. 9.02x5.98x0.75 inches. This item is printed on demand. N° de réf. du vendeur zk1330273710
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