. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. GAKDEXIXi,-; luoro effeotivr aihrrti.^iiii;- than l)y ;- the possil>ilities ut' the (. traversed fur ^-. Instead ot dreary wastes of dust and cinders, their way- station g-nnmds should present refreslnui;- seenes nt' shade and verdure. Their ^Tnunds shnuM h,
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. GAKDEXIXi,-; luoro effeotivr aihrrti.^iiii;- than l)y ;- the possil>ilities ut' the (. traversed fur ^-. Instead ot dreary wastes of dust and cinders, their way- station g-nnmds should present refreslnui;- seenes nt' shade and verdure. Their ^Tnunds shnuM h,- treated aceordintj to the rules nf huids,-;i|M' art that hoM ^ in ail phmtiu^'. Where ailjaeent hiuil dro[.s awav i^nvin-' ii-ood vistas, these should he preserved; ohjec'tiunalile features shouUl. as far as i>ossilde, be "}da'nted out;" skylines should he varied, liaidvs elotlied. and variety and views sujvplied, partieularlv in llat and unintrrest- ini,^ rei^ioiis. in shore, railroad i::ardens should he in the hands uf thnsf who will adorn iusU-ad of deface theiii; who will look to the fornuition of features that will take care of themselves after planting is established âfeatures that re<|uire considerable expenditure, a good knowledge of troes and of shmhs, aud a large amount tast-- in tlie <U'si-ner at tlie onts.^t, hut after being est;il,lished. like the island -ardens of Paris, "the hand of man niiirht b,- withhehl for hall' a c-nTurv without their sutl'erinu' in the ; Ji'<nlro<i'.~"^vvvu Lamps of ," hy Ruskiu. "Landscape (lardeniu'; hv Samuel Parsons. .\v. " (..)fuanuuLtal Hardeuiui;- for Ameri- by Elias A. Long. "Oer Stiidtebau'' (Vol. 9 of Part 4 of "?Iandhuch ^ler Architektur"), Press of Bergstrasser. Darmstadt. ]SW. Iiv J. Stiihheu. Bul- letins of the r. S. Dept. of A-ric, Division of Forestrv, especially No. 1 (1S80 aud Xu. 7 (189:;). "Uarden and
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