ON THE

THEORY AND PRACTICE

OF

LANDSCAPE GARDENING,

ADAPTED TO

North America;

WITH A VIEW TO THE

IMPROVEMENT OF COUNTRY RESIDENCES.

COMPRISING

HISTORICAL NOTICES AND GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF THE ART,

DIRECTIONS FOR LAYING OUT GROUNDS AND ARRANGING PLANTATIONS, THE
DESCRIPTION AND CULTIVATION OF HARDY TREES, DECORATIVE
ACCOMPANIMENTS OF THE HOUSE AND GROUNDS,
THE FORMATION OF

PIECES OF ARTIFICIAL WATER, FLOWER GARDENS, ETC.

CONTAINING SOME REMARKS ABOUT COUNTRY PLACES, AND THE BEST METHODS OF
MAKING THEM; ALSO, AN ACCOUNT OF THE NEWER DECIDUOUS AND EVER-
GREEN PLANTS, LATELY INTRODUCED INTO CULTIVATION, BOTH HARDY
AND HALF-HARDY.

BY

HENRY WINTHROP SARGENT.

New York:

A. O. MOORE & CO.

AGRICULTURAL BOOK PUBLISHERS, 140 FULTON STREET.
1859.

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007:71481
132483

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859,

BY A. O. MOORE & CO.,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the
Southern District of New York.

WYNKOOP, HALLENBECK & THOMAS, PRINTERS,

113 Fulton Street, N. Y.

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ΤΟ

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, LL.D.,

EX-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES;

THE LOVER OF RURAL PURSUITS,

AS WELL AS

THE DISTINGUISHED PATRIOT, STATESMAN,

AND SAGE;

THIS VOLUME

BY PERMISSION,

IS RESPECTFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY

DEDICATED,

BY HIS FRIEND,

THE AUTHOR.