Excerpt from Landscape Gardening: A Collection of Plans Illustrating the Improvement of Home Grounds, Town Lots, Real Estate Subdivisions, Public Squares, Cemeteries, With Copious ExplanationsTo make the collection educational as far as possible, a diagram of the grounds as they appeared before changes were made is in most in stances given, as well as the author's plans for improving the same. It may be remarked that figures 1, 2, 6, 9, II, 13. 24, 30, and 31, set forth with tolerable clearness the general type of unimproved grounds in America.The corresponding plans, and some added ones, give an idea of the gain that could be wrought for our homes, suburban districts, parks and cemeteries, were trained landscape gardeners as generally employed in improving such property, as trained architects are now depended upon, for planning our dwellings and other structures.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.