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.

WITH

REMARKS ON RURAL ARCHITECTURE.

BY THE LATE A. J. DOWNING, ESQ.

SIXTH EDITION,

ENLARGED, REVISED, AND NEWLY ILLUSTRATED.

WITH A SUPPLEMENT,

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, BOTII HARDY
AND HALF-HARDY.

BY

HENRY WINTHROP SARGENT.

New York:

A. O. MOORE & CO.

AGRICULTURAL BOOK PUBLISHERS, 140 FULTON STREET.
1859.

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.