. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1229 An be expected as long as the human race makes progress. The constantly increasing wealth of plants modifies the spirit of the work. It is no longer worth while to follow any school or cult. Every style has its use and place. In small city or suburban places, a fo
. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1229 An be expected as long as the human race makes progress. The constantly increasing wealth of plants modifies the spirit of the work. It is no longer worth while to follow any school or cult. Every style has its use and place. In small city or suburban places, a formal or formalesque treatment of the ground plan may be desirable. In larger and freer places, the spirit of the fields may be given fuller expression The fundamental thing to consider is the fact that there must be a general theory or plan before there is any grading and plant- ing,âthese latter things are only means to an end. Yet many persons who would be called landscape gardeners conceive that to plant a place is the whole of the pro- blem. The working out of the details of the plan is to Landscape Gardening what building is to architecture, or what pen-work and grammar are to literature. It is the industrial or constructional part of the work. It is what has been called Landscape Horticulture (Bailey "Garden and Forest," 1:58). It has to do with all the details of kinds of plants, the care of them, the making of lawns, and similar problems. The American writings on Landscape Gardening are mostly writings on land- scape horticulture and kinds of plants. Of indigenous American books, only two (Downing and Waugh) can be said to give a dominant .share of their space to the prin- ciples of Landscape Gardening as a fine-art conception. The first American practicing landscape gardener of note was Andrfi Parmentier, who came to this country from Belgium about 1824 and established a nursery on ground which is now in the heart of Brooklyn. He was a man of great taste and
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