Opis: A Plea for Hardy Plants - Elliott James Wilkinson

Excerpt from A Plea for Hardy Plants: With Suggetions for Effective Arrangement

This book has not been written to teach the art of landscape gardening, but the need of it. The student of landscape gardening will find many excellent books on the subject, but the public hardly knows that there is such an art, and that good gardens and grounds, like good houses, are always the result of intelligent study and design.

The annual expenditure for suburban and country homes is enormous, and while an architect is always employed to design and plan the house, with but few exceptions the treatment of the grounds is intrusted to the nearest two-dollar-a-day jobbing gardener, or the owner is his own landscape gardener. The result is always unsatisfactory, although often the expenditure would have secured most beautiful effects if directed by skilled advice. The folly of this is more apparent when it is considered that fully fifty per cent of the cost of the better class of houses is expended with the desire of producing beauty; one dollar intelligently spent on the grounds will afford more beauty than will ten spent on the house, and the attractiveness of the house is greatly enhanced by the beauty and fitness of the grounds. I have endeavored to show this by good pictures rather than with much writing.

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Szczegóły: A Plea for Hardy Plants - Elliott James Wilkinson

Nazwa: A Plea for Hardy Plants With Suggetions for Effective Arrangement (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Elliott James Wilkinson
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330120309
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 96
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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