. Art out-of-doors : hints on good taste in gardening. Gardening. BOOKS ON GARDENING ART O complete bibliography of books relating to the art of landscape- gardening existed in our lan- guage, or, I think, in any other, until one was compiled, three years ago, by Henry Sargent Codman, the young land- scape-gardener who died last winter, and whose monument is the work he did, under Mr. Olmsted's direction, on the Fair-grounds at Chicago. This hst is a long one, cover- ing all the books in English, French, Ger- man, and Italian of which Mr. Codman could learn in American and foreign libra- ries,
. Art out-of-doors : hints on good taste in gardening. Gardening. BOOKS ON GARDENING ART O complete bibliography of books relating to the art of landscape- gardening existed in our lan- guage, or, I think, in any other, until one was compiled, three years ago, by Henry Sargent Codman, the young land- scape-gardener who died last winter, and whose monument is the work he did, under Mr. Olmsted's direction, on the Fair-grounds at Chicago. This hst is a long one, cover- ing all the books in English, French, Ger- man, and Italian of which Mr. Codman could learn in American and foreign libra- ries, and which are of later date than Bacon's famous essay. During the last two centuries few books about formal gardening have been written; and the earlier literature of this branch of the art must be sought chiefly in works upon architecture, the connection be- tween the two crafts being, of course, very close before the development of naturalistic 387. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Van Rensselaer, Schuyler, Mrs. , 1851-1934; Armstrong, Margaret, 1867-1944, binding designer; Margaret Armstrong Binding Collection (Library of Congress) DLC. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
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