Lawns and Gardens

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Applewood Books, 27.01.2009 - 432 Seiten
Nils Jönsson-Rose's Lawns and Gardens helped late-Victorian readers improve the appeal of their homes through the beautification of their lawns and gardens. In this book, the author covers such landscape gardening topics as drives and walks, flower beds, hedges, orchard and kitchen gardens, and trees. Originally published in 1897, it includes more than 150 plans and illustrations by the author.
 

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HERBACEOUS PLANTS
58
GRADING
63
HOME GROUNDS OF A COUNTRY RESIDENCE N J ROSE
64
FIC PAGE 32 METHOD OF MODIFYING STEEP SHORES
66
METHOD OF PLACING GRADE STAKES
67
DRAINS OF ROUND TILE AND STONE DRAINS
69
DRIVES AND WALKS
72
CURVED ROAD ROUNDING A SHRUBBERY
73
WALK LAID TO THE TOP OF A HILL How To AVOID STEEP GRADES
74
GRADING THE SIDES OF A Sunken Road
75
GAUGE USED IN ROADMAKING
76
SHELL WALK ON LOW GROUND
77
LARGE DRIVE WITH SURFACE DRAINAGE
78
GROUPING AND MASSING OF TREES AND SHRUBS
79
NATURAL GROUP OF OAKS
80
COMPOSITE GROUP OF TREES AND SHRUBS SHOWING PICTURESQUE SKYLINE
81
MIXED PLANTATION OF DECIDUOUS TREES AND EVERGREENS 52
82
SCREEN PLANTING
83
RHODODENDRON DAURICUM AS UNDERGROWTH IN A WOOD
85
GROUP AND SPECIMEN SHRUBS NEAR A WALK
86
DETACHED GROUPS AND SPECIMEN PLANTS
90
WEEPING BIRCH AS A SPECIMEN TREE
91
BOLD GROUPING OF TREES LOMBARDY POPULAR AND PINE ROYAL GARDENS KEW 944
94
TYPICAL WOODLAND FLOWERSTHE WOOD ANEMONE 4 sylvestris
97
PRIMROSE Growing In OLD PASTURE
99
TYPICAL RIPARIAN VEGETATIONGREEN HELLEBORE Veratrum viride
103
DWARF MULLEIN Ramondia Pyrenaica A TYPICAL ROCK PLANT
104
THE LAWN
105
A METHOD OF CUTTING AND ROLLING SODS B SECTION OF THE EDGE OF A LAWN SODDED
107
SECTION OF A TERRACE A SODS B SEEDED GROUND C WALK
108
LAWN WITH ROUNDED SURFACE III
111
LAWN FORMING A SHALLOW DELL
112
CROCUS GROWING IN THE GRASS
113
ROCKS AND WATER
115
ROCKY SUMMIT OF A KNOLL
116
SANDSTONE ROCKS PROTRUDING THROUGH A HILLSIDE
117
SMALL ROCKERY AGAINST A WALL
118
SECTION OF A ROCKERY
119
PONDLIKE CISTERN WITH FOUNTAIN
121
SECTION OF SMALL ARTIFICIAL STREAM WITH CONCRETE BOTTOM ROCKY BANKS
122
LAKE AND WATERSIDE PLANTING RED MAPLES AND OAKS
123
SECTION OF ARTIFICIAL WATER WITH CONCRETE BOTTOM ROCKY BANKS AND FOUNTAIN
124
FLOWERBEDS AND BORDERS
125
FLOWERBEDS
131
HEDGES
133
WELLKEPT HEDGE FORMAL LINES BROKEN BY FINE PLANTING
134
FIG PAGE 76 RUSTIC SHELTER EFFICIENT WHEN COVERED WITH CREEPERS AND VINES
138
WOODEN BRIDGE
139
STONE BRIDGE
140
DECIDUOUS TREES
165
TARTARIAN MAPLE Acer Tartaricum
169
PERSIMMON Diospyris Virginica
171
SASSAFRAS LAUREL Sassafras officinale
172
NETTLETREE Celtis occidentalis
173
CAUCASIAN WALNUT Pterocaria Caucasica
176
PINOAK Quercus palustris
177
CUTLEAVED BEECH Fagus sylvatica laciniata
179
WEEPINGBEECH Fagus sylvatica pendula
181
WEEPINGWILLOW Salix Babylonica
183
CONIFEROUS TREES
185
AUSTRIAN PINE Pinus Austriaca 167
187
WHITE PINE Pinus Strobus
188
DWARF PINE Pinus Mughus
189
CEPHALONIAN SILVER FIR Abies Cephalonica
190
WHITE SILVER FIR Abies concolor
191
NORDMANNS SILVER FIR Abies Nordmanniana
192
LAWSONS CEDAR Chamæcyparis Lawsoniana
196
IOI GIANT ARBORVITÆ Thuya gigantea
198
FLOWERING TREES
201
CHINESE MAGNOLIA Magnolia conspicua
203
LOCUST Robinia pseudacacia
206
NARROWLEAVED THORN Cratagus spathulata
211
FLOWERING DOGWOOD Cornus Florida
214
BRANCH OF SILVER BELL TREE Halesia tetraptera
215
PAULOWNIA Paulownia Imperialis
216
TREE PEONY Paonia Moutan
219
ROSE ACACIA Robinia hispida SEE PAGE 206
226
ITO THREELOBED SPIREA Spirea trilobata
227
ROSE BRAMBLE Rubus deliciosus
230
BLACK HAW Viburnum prunifolium
238
SOFTLEAVED ÁZALEA Azalea mollis
243
CHINESE LILAC Syringa Chinensis
247
FRINGE TREE Chionanthus Virginica
248
LARGEFLOWERED CLEMATIS Clematis cœrulea patens
253
CHINESE WISTARIA Wistaria Sinensis
257
PRAIRIE ROSE Rosa setigera
258
PASQUEFLOWER Anemone pulsatilla GROWING IN STONY SOIL ON A HILL SIDE
265
JAPANESE WINDFLOWER Anemone Japonica
266
COMMON LARKSPUR Delphimum exaltatum
278
CANDYTUFT Iberis umbellata
290
BLUE BONNETS Scabiosa succica
320
DWARF CARPATIAN BELLFLOWER Campanula Carpatica turbinata pallida
332
ALP VIOLET Cyclamen Europeum
338
BLUE COWSLIP Pulmonaria angustifolia
347
BLUE WINDFLOWER Gentiana pneumonanthe
360
INDEX OF COMMON NAMES
391
INDEX OF BOTANICAL NAMES
403
WHITE WOOD LILY Trillium grandiflorum
414

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