MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2011053070
003 DLC
005 20111228173924.0
008 111228s2012 nyu b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780393733594 (pbk.)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
050 00 $aNA737.D675$bA35 2012
082 00 $a712$223
100 1 $aDowning, A. J.$q(Andrew Jackson),$d1815-1852
245 10 $aAndrew Jackson Downing :$bessential texts /$cedited by Robert Twombly.
250 $aFirst edition.
260 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton & Company,$c2012.
263 $a1205
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aArchitecture and building. Remarks on the fitness of the different styles of architecture for the construction of country residences, and on the employment of vases in garden scenery (1836) -- Hints on the construction of farm-houses (1846) -- The workingman's cottage (1846) -- On country houses (1846) -- Hints to persons about building in the country (1847) -- On the color of country houses (1847) -- On the moral influence of good houses (1848) -- A few words on our progress in building (1851) -- A short chapter on country churches (1851) -- Landscape gardening. Rural embellishments (1832) -- Notes on belts of trees in ornamental plantations (1842) -- A chapter on lawns (1846) -- Hints on flower-gardens (1847) -- How to choose a site for a country seat (1847) -- How to arrange country places (1850) -- The management of large country places (1851) -- A chapter on school houses (1848) -- Parks and other public places. A talk about public parks and gardens (1848) -- Public cemeteries and public gardens (1849) -- The New York park (1851) -- Village beautification. Trees in towns and villages (1847) -- On planting shade trees (1847) -- On the improvement of country villages (1849) -- Our country villages (1850) -- Horticulture. Some remarks on temperature considered in relation to vegetation and the naturalization of plants (1836) -- Notices on the state and progress of horticulture in the United States (1837) -- Great Horticultural Society of the Valley of the Hudson (1838)-- Some remarks on the superiority of native varieties of fruit (1847) -- The influence of horticulture (1847) -- American versus British horticulture (1852) -- Agricultural education. The national ignorance of the agricultural interest (1851) -- A chapter on agricultural schools (1849) -- Address on agricultural education (1851).
650 0 $aArchitecture.
650 0 $aAgriculture.
700 1 $aTwombly, Robert C.,$eeditor of compilation.