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• Landscape gardening (category Garden Types)
  the theorization of garden design as a fine art. The practice of landscape gardening in this sense resulted in the landscape garden that, according to John
  66 KB (9,707 words) - 12:44, February 18, 2021
• Rustic style (category Garden Styles)
  accompanying the beautiful landscape garden, with the rustic as the most fitting decoration of the picturesque landscape garden. Several garden writers recommended
  37 KB (5,144 words) - 14:29, February 17, 2021
• Modern style/Natural style (category Garden Styles)
  short story, “The Landscape Garden” (1832), he used the terms “natural” and “artificial” exclusively to describe the two branches of landscape gardening. Downing
  40 KB (5,463 words) - 12:45, February 18, 2021
• Wilderness
  in American gardens evolved from an artificially constructed space set apart from the natural landscape to an unimproved natural landscape included within
  40 KB (5,678 words) - 17:24, August 19, 2021
• English style (redirect from English garden) (category Garden Styles)
  history of the rise of the landscape garden and flower garden in England. Downing described it as “devoted to the improvement of Landscape gardening in the modern
  33 KB (4,627 words) - 14:28, February 17, 2021
• J. C. (John Claudius) Loudon (section The Suburban Gardener (1838))
  Flower garden, Fountain, French style, Gardenesque, Gate/Gateway, Geometric style, Grotto, Hedge, Hothouse, Icehouse, Kitchen garden, Lake, Landscape gardening
  35 KB (4,313 words) - 14:41, September 21, 2021
• Andrew Jackson Downing
  extensively on horticulture, landscape design, and architecture. Downing sold Botanic Garden and Nurseries in 1846, as landscape design and writing activities
  60 KB (7,882 words) - 20:03, September 8, 2021
• John Bartram
  Zotero; see also Joel T. Fry, John Bartram’s House and Garden (Bartram’s Garden), Historic American Landscape Survey, HALS No. PA-1, 2004, 19–22, view on Zotero
  39 KB (5,119 words) - 20:00, September 8, 2021
• Ferme ornée/Ornamental farm (category Garden Types)
  farm, or ferme ornée, integrated the pleasure garden, farm lands, and kitchen garden. Although this garden type persisted into the mid-19th century in America
  22 KB (3,048 words) - 16:22, April 7, 2021
• Thicket
  in accord with the theories of landscape gardening, it also suited the American gardener’s challenge to carve out a garden from what was often heavily wooded
  31 KB (4,281 words) - 17:44, February 3, 2021
• Belfield
  agriculture. Like many landscape designers and gardeners of the early republic, Peale’s taste was informed by the work of English landscape theorists, who advocated
  27 KB (3,621 words) - 19:53, September 1, 2021
• Geometric style (category Garden Styles)
  natural or modern style was introduced. As part of a larger landscaped garden, the flower garden was a feature that lent itself to regular shapes. Early public
  29 KB (4,176 words) - 11:57, March 16, 2021
• Grotto
  Bescherer Metheny et al., “Method in Landscape Archaeology: Research Strategies in a Historic New Jersey Garden,” in Landscape Archaeology: Reading and Interpreting
  29 KB (3,925 words) - 16:49, March 29, 2021
• Prospect
  locations by seats, pavilions, and garden houses to be used for the enjoyment and repose of those walking through the garden [Fig. 3]. As Andrew Jackson Downing
  57 KB (7,849 words) - 15:06, August 13, 2021
• Wood/Woods
  verticality of the wood and the horizontal sweep of flat elements of the garden or landscape. The outline of the wood, Whately stipulated, should be varied by
  58 KB (8,455 words) - 15:19, August 13, 2021
• Lawn
  century that garden descriptions and other landscape writing registered the common practice of planting lawns, particularly among the larger gardens of the colonial
  108 KB (14,954 words) - 15:38, August 13, 2021
• Flower garden (category Garden Types)
  of Landscape Gardening (1849), in which he discussed the “irregular” flower garden, the “English” flower garden, and the “old French” flower garden. The
  123 KB (18,641 words) - 13:30, April 12, 2021
• View/Vista
  its designation of views created within the garden or looking out of the garden into the surrounding landscape. The term “vista” also carried the more particular
  80 KB (11,249 words) - 19:23, August 12, 2021
• Seat (category Garden Ornaments/Embellishments)
  Arboriculture, and Landscape-Gardening, 4th ed. (London: Longman et al., 1826),view on Zotero. Anonymous, “On Landscape and Picturesque Gardens,” New England
  85 KB (11,717 words) - 17:54, April 7, 2021
• Picturesque (category Garden Styles)
  regular and geometric forms in landscape design. Instructions for laying out the picturesque garden were found in garden literature such as the Horticultural
  75 KB (10,259 words) - 13:03, April 1, 2021

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