Excerpt from Landscape Gardening: Or, Parks and Pleasure Grounds, With Practical Notes on Country Residences, Villas, Public Parks and Gardens; With Notes and Additions
It may appear superfluous to re-edit, in the United States, a work of the kind now presented to the reader: particularly if it be one of competent authority on the subjects of which it professes to treat. In answer to this suggestion it may be remarked, that scarce any European treatise on the management of grounds, the vegetation belonging to them, or the structures to be erected on them, can, in every thing, be applicable here. Our climates and soils; our trees, shrubs and plants; our habits and tastes, all differ in various degrees from those of Europe, and Europeans, to which and to whom we have hitherto chiefly looked for example and authority in matters of this kind.
Parks and Pleasure-grounds are a part of the "Institutions" of Great Britain. Parks came into England with William the Conquerer.
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