A Treatise on Forming, Improving, and Managing Country Residences: And on the Choice of Situations Appropriate to Every Class of Purchasers ...

Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806

Of the causes which may influence our feeling and judgment in matters	11

Of the elementary modifications of matter which correspond to the elemen	18

Of the combinations of the elementary modifications of matter forming	28

Of the exercise of the faculty of taste in discerning combinations and	44

Of the advantages to be derived from the study of the principles and practice	54

In assisting in the discrimination of character	60

INTRODUCTION	67

PAGE	71

Besides the intrinsic value of timber wood is useful for sheltering	447

Of the objects of planting	453

Of trees and shrubs the materials with which the objects of planting are	458

The variety of the leaves of trees	464

The relative value of timber	470

purposes in naval architecture	476

The hemlock sprucecypresshollyevergreen oaksivy	487

vegetables	493

GENERAL INTRODUCTION	82

Of the Gothic style of building	97

Of the Saxon Gothic style	103

Of styles composed both of Grecian and Gothic architecture	114

Of private buildings	124

Great beauty of water mills and iron works when judiciously placed	152

OF EXECUTION AND FINISHING	183

Of the improvement of the soil and surface	200

Of the improvement of the situation	230

Of breeding rearing and fattening animals and of their general management	242

USEFUL OR CULINARY GARDENING	253

CHAP III	267

Of the culture of culinary exotics	277

Of forcing vegetables into a state of growth or fruit at particular or unnatu	283

Hotwalls	296

Of the formation of orchards	302

INTRODUCTION	355

Stones	372

Water	380

The general shape	386

Buildings bridges c	392

The picturesque improvement of pieces of water already existing	399

The expense attending the formation of artificial water	405

Of the fleeting or accidental materials of landscape	422

Of the subjects or particular scenes of picturesque improvement	431

THE FORMATION AND MANAGEMENT OF USEFUL AND PIC	441

Proofs from the different qualities of common Scotch fir timber	499

Of the principles of operating with trees so as to effect the objects in view	507

To imitate the effects of aërial perspective	514

Of the disposition of wood on a residence with respect to quantity	522

Ditches	544

Of the size of the plants and mode of planting or sowing	551

Of the management of plantations	557

The true way of rendering an estate of the greatest value is in con	587

PART I	599

Of forming the design or general plan whether for the entire formation	612

TREATS OF THE ELEMENTARY BRANCHES OF THE ART OF FORMING AND IMPROVING	625

DIFFERENT STYLES OF FORMING A COUNTRY RESIDENCE CHA	639

The characteristic or natural style recommended in this work and adopted	644

The leading distinctions between the affectedly graceful system of Brown	650

ON TASTE	668

INTRODUCTION	676

noisseurs who are never persons of general taste	677

The poor compelled to duty from necessity and laws	680

Rural improvement demands attention when we consider the effects	686

APPENDIX	701

An enquiry into the merits of Mr Reptons manner of using slides with	705

Strictures on Mr Reptons published works on Landscape Gardening	709

Mr Reptons object is at best to please or amuse not to interest	711

Instances referred to in The Enquiry and in Hints and Sketches	717

CHAP I

Τίτλος	A Treatise on Forming, Improving, and Managing Country Residences: And on the Choice of Situations Appropriate to Every Class of Purchasers ... Τόμοι 1-2 του A Treatise on Forming, Improving, and Managing Country Residences: And on the Choice of Situations Appropriate to Every Class of Purchasers, John Claudius Loudon
Συγγραφέας	John Claudius Loudon
Εκδότης	Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806
Πρωτότυπο από	Κρατικό πανεπιστήμιο του Οχάιο
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