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  • Gardening, 4th ed. (1826), 796, fig. 549. J. C. Loudon, Plan of French parterre of embroidery, in An Encyclopædia of Gardening, 4th ed. (1826), 797, fig
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  • of Gardening, 4th ed/ (1826), 357, fig. 336. J. C. Loudon, Elegant structures of the seat kind, in An Encyclopædia of Gardening, 4th ed. (1826), 357, figs
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  • Canada, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797, ed. by Brisson Dupont and Charles Ponges, trans. by H. Newman, 2nd ed., 4 vols. (London: R. Philips, 1800), view
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  • of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture, and Landscape-Gardening, 4th ed. (London: Longman et al., 1826) View at Internet Archive J. C. (John Claudius)
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  • Franklin Knight, ed., Letters on Agriculture from His Excellency George Washington (1847), opp. 124. Anonymous, “The Manor of Livingston,” ed. A. J. Downing
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  • Encyclopaedia of Gardening, 4th ed. (1826), 954, fig. 649. J. C. Loudon, Clump of Scotch pines, in An Encyclopaedia of Gardening, 4th ed. (1826), 965, fig. 663
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  • Flower-Garden, ed. A. J. Downing (New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1843), view on Zotero. George William Johnson, A Dictionary of Modern Gardening, ed. David Landreth
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  • Gardening, 4th ed. (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1849), 103, view on Zotero. The Virginia Journals of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1795–1798, ed. Edward C. Carter
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  • Gardening, 4th ed. (1826), 804, fig. 557. J. C. Loudon, “The select or grouped manner of planting a shrubbery,” in An Encyclopædia of Gardening, 4th ed. (1826)
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  • Canada, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797, ed. Brisson Dupont and Charles Ponges, trans. H. Newman, 2nd ed., 4 vols. (London: R. Philips, 1800), view on
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  • Downing, ed., Horticulturist 3, no. 3 (September 1848): 124, figs. 20 and 21. Anonymous, “Polmaise Mode of Heating Green-Houses,” in A. J. Downing, ed., Horticulturist
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  • Old Dominion, ed. Hunter D. Farish (Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg, 1943), view on Zotero. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, ed., The Diaries
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  • Hamilton, 1744, ed. Carl Bridenbaugh (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1948), view on Zotero. Louise Pecquet du Bellet, ed., Some Prominent
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  • J. Downing, ed., Horticulturist 2, no. 4 (October 1847): pl. opp. 153. Anonymous, “Rustic Seat,” Montgomery Place, in A. J. Downing, ed., Horticulturist
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  • Gardening, 4th ed. (1826), 375, figs. 361 and 362. J. C. Loudon, “Intricate and fanciful figures of parterres,” in An Encyclopædia of Gardening, 4th ed. (1826)
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  • Americans, 3rd ed., 2 vols. (London: Wittaker, Treacher, 1832), view on Zotero.. William Cullen Bryant, The Letters of William Cullen Bryant, ed. William Cullen
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  • Canada, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797, ed. Brisson Dupont and Charles Ponges, trans. H. Newman, 2nd ed., 4 vols. (London: R. Philips, 1800), view on
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  • Practice of Landscape Gardening, 4th ed. (1849), 457, fig. 84. Anonymous, “Rustic Arbours,” in A. J. Downing, ed., Horticulturist 4, no. 7 (January 1850):
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  • Zotero. Thomas Fessenden, ed., The New American Gardener, 1st ed. (Boston: J. B. Russell, 1828), view on Zotero. Alice B. Lockwood, ed., Gardens of Colony and
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  • Between Fences, ed. Gregory K. Dreicer (Washington, DC: National Building Museum, 1996), 28–30, view on Zotero. Alice B. Lockwood, ed., Gardens of Colony
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  • Gardener’s Assistant, 3rd ed. (New York: Geo. Robertson, 1832), view on Zotero. Thomas Fessenden, ed., The New American Gardener, 7th ed. (Boston: Russell, Odiorne
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  • Landscape-Gardening, 4th ed. (London: Longman et al., 1826), view on Zotero. André Parmentier, “The Art of Landscape Gardening,” in The New American Gardener, ed. Thomas
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  • Abigail Adams, Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams, ed. Charles Francis Adams, 3rd ed. (Boston: C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1841), view on Zotero
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  • Florida, ed. Mark Van Doren (New York: Dover, 1928), view on Zotero. William Loughton Smith, Journal of William Loughton Smith, 1790–1791 ed. Albert Matthews
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  • Directory, 2nd ed. (Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1841), view on Zotero. Jane Loudon, Gardening for Ladies; and Companion to the Flower-Garden, ed. A. J. Downing
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  • Poinsett, describing his plans for the national Mall, Washington, DC (Scott, ed., 1990: n.p.) “The Botanic garden is laid out in the centre fronting and opening
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  • Tutor of the Old Dominion, ed. by Hunter D. Farish (Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg, 1943), view on Zotero. Fred Shelley, ed., “The Journal of Ebenezer
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  • Canada, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797, ed. Brisson Dupont and Charles Ponges, trans. H. Newman, 2nd ed., 4 vols. (London: R. Philips, 1800), view on
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  • Flower-Garden, ed. A. J. Downing (New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1845), view on Zotero. George William Johnson, A Dictionary of Modern Gardening, ed. David Landreth
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  • Gardening, 4th ed. (1826), 793, figs. 543 and 544. J. C. Loudon, Plan of a flower garden in the old French style, in An Encyclopædia of Gardening, 4th ed. (1826)
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  • Encyclopædia of Gardening, 4th ed. (1826), 357, figs. 334–36. J. C. Loudon, “Rustic fences,” in An Encyclopædia of Gardening, 4th ed. (1826), 792, fig. 542. J
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  • and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America, ed. A. J. Downing, 4th ed. (1849; repr., Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1991), x, xn20,
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  • Loudon, Statue of classical interest, in An Encyclopædia of Gardening, 4th ed. (1826), 810, fig. 564. “Statues, whether of classical or geographical interest
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  • Directory, 2nd ed. (Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1841), view on Zotero. Jane Loudon, Gardening for Ladies; and Companion to the Flower-Garden, ed. A. J. Downing
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  • Revolution, ed. Susan E. Klepp and Karin Wulf (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010), view on Zotero. Thomas Jefferson, The Garden Book, ed. Edwin M. Betts
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  • Other Writings, ed. Louis B. Wright and Marion Tinling (New York: Oxford University Press, 1958), view on Zotero. Alice B. Lockwood, ed., Gardens of Colony
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  • Established in 1801, 2nd ed. (New York: T. & J. Swords, 1811), view on Zotero. George Washington, The Diaries of George Washington, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy
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  • Fifty-Four Copper Plates, to Which Is Annexed, The Builder’s Dictionary, ed. E. Hoppus, 6th ed. (London: Printed for C. Hitch et al., 1762), view on Zotero. John
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  • 5th ed. (Philadelphia: William Young, 1789) view on Zotero. George Gregory, A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 1st American ed. (Philadelphia:
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  • Plantation in 1838–1839, ed. John A. Scott (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1984), view on Zotero. Jacquetta M. Haley, ed., Pleasure Grounds: Andrew
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  • Downing, A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, 4th ed. (1849), 115, fig. 25. “A prospect tower, or rustic pavilion, on a little
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  • Florida, ed. Mark Van Doren (New York: Dover, 1928), view on Zotero. William Strickland, Journal of a Tour in the United States of America, 1794–1795, ed. J
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  • 3rd ed. (1770; repr., London: Garland, 1982), view on Zotero. George Gregory, A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 1st American ed., 3 vols
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  • and 1811–1812, ed. Richard Beale Davis (San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1954), view on Zotero. Thomas Jefferson, The Garden Book, ed. Edwin M. Betts
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  • Fifty-Four Copper Plates, to Which Is Annexed, The Builder’s Dictionary, ed. E. Hoppus, 6th ed. (London: Printed for C. Hitch et al., 1762), view on Zotero. Thomas
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  • 1797, ed. by Brisson Dupont and Charles Ponges, trans. H. Newman, 2nd ed., 4 vols. (London: R. Philips, 1800), view on Zotero. Alice B. Lockwood, ed., Gardens
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  • 700. Anonymous, “Rustic Seat,” Montgomery Place, in Andrew Jackson Downing, ed., Horticulturist 2, no. 4 (October 1847): 157, fig. 26. Anonymous, “The Cataract
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  • "Summer-house (12)." Anonymous, “Kiosques or Summer Houses,” in A. J. Downing, ed., Horticulturist 7, no. 7 (July 1852): pl. opp. 296. G. & F. Bill (firm),
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  • Gardening, 4th ed. (1826), 340, fig. 289. J. C. Loudon, The form of Ice Houses and excavation of Ice-Wells, in An Encyclopædia of Gardening, 4th ed. (1826),
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  • Canada, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797, ed. Brisson Dupont and Charles Ponges, trans. H. Newman, 2nd ed., 4 vols. (London: R. Philips, 1800), view on
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  • and North Carolina, ed. Richard L. Morton (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1956), view on Zotero. Carl R. Lounsbury, ed., An Illustrated
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  • Jackson Downing, ed., Horticulturist 2, no. 4 (October 1847): 157, fig. 26. Anonymous, “The Lake,” Montgomery Place, in Andrew Jackson Downing, ed., Horticulturist
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  • Gardening, 4th ed. (1849), 115, fig. 25. J. C. Loudon, In planting with a view to natural beauty, in An Encyclopædia of Gardening, 4th ed. (1826), 1008
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  • Latrobe, Impressions Respecting New Orleans: Diaries and Sketches, 1818-1820, ed. Samuel Wilson (New York: Columbia University Press, 1951), view on Zotero
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  • to History Washington, George, January 12, 1785, diary entry (Fitzpatrick, ed., 1925: 2:334) “Road to my Mill Swamp, where my Dogue run hands were at Work
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  • Canada, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797, ed. Brisson Dupont and Charles Ponges, trans. H. Newman, 2nd ed., 4 vols. (London: R. Philips, 1800), view on
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  • Domestic Manners of the Americans, 3rd ed., 2 vols. (London: Wittaker, Treacher, 1832), view on Zotero. Pamela Scott, ed., The Papers of Robert Mills (Wilmington
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  • Benjamin Henry Latrobe, The Engineering Drawings of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, ed. Darwin H. Stapleton, The Papers of Benjamin Hentry Latrobe, II: The Architectural
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  • Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America, 4th ed. (1849), 517, fig. 17. Frederick Graff, Plan of Lemon Hill and Sedgley Park
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  • Mount Vernon, plantation of George Washington, Fairfax County, VA (Cometti, ed., 1976: 246) “From hence is one of the most delightfull Prospects I ever beheld
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  • 4th ed. (1826), 1002, fig. 683. J. C. Loudon, Landscape gardening for a residence in the ancient style, in An Encyclopaedia of Gardening, 4th ed. (1826)
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  • and P. Knapton, 1755), view on Zotero. Thomas Fessenden, ed., The New American Gardener, 1st ed. (Boston: J. B. Russell, 1828), view on Zotero. A. J. [Andrew
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  • of Arts and Sciences. . . ., 5th ed., 2 vols. (London: D. Midwinter: 1741–43), view on Zotero. Carl R. Lounsbury, ed., An Illustrated Glossary of Early
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  • A. J. Downing, ed., Horticulturist 2, no. 4 (October 1847): 159, fig. 28. Anonymous, "Plan of a Suburban Garden," in A. J. Downing, ed., Horticulturist
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  • Flower-Garden, ed. A. J. Downing (New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1845), view on Zotero. George William Johnson, A Dictionary of Modern Gardening, ed. David Landreth
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  • 200. Anonymous, “Design for a Geometric Flower Garden,” in A. J. Downing, ed., Horticulturist 2, no. 12 (June 1848): 558, fig. 67. Anonymous, “The Geometric
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  • J. C. Loudon, "The pleasure-ground", in An Encyclopaedia of Gardening, 4th ed. (1826), 1021, fig. 719. Charles Varlé, Project for the improvement of the
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  • Gardening, in the Year 1685,” in Five Miscellaneous Essays by Sir William Temple, ed. Samuel Holt Monk (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1963), 1–36, view
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  • Gardening, 4th ed. (1826), 285, figs. 177–79. J. C. Loudon, “The propagation-pot” and “carnation-saucer,” in An Encyclopædia of Gardening, new ed. (1834), 540
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  • Pinckney, 1739–1762, ed. Elise Pinckney (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1972), view on Zotero. Louise Pecquet du Bellet, ed., Some Prominent
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  • of Botanic Gardens, 1730—1830,” in Garden History: Issues and Approaches, ed. John Dixon Hunt (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
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  • ‘Minutes Made by S.V., from Stage to Stage, on a Tour to Fort Pitt.’ Part I,” ed. Edward G. Williams, Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 44 (March 1961):
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  • Downing, A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, 4th ed. (1849), 471, fig. 92. “A simple jet. . . issuing from a circular basin of
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  • 450a–c. Anonymous, "View in the Vinery, at Clinton Point," in A. J. Downing, ed., The Horticulturist. 4, no. 4 (October 1849): pl. opp. p. 153 Anonymous,
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  • Seat, c. 1847. Alexander Jackson Davis, “Montgomery Place,” in A. J. Downing, ed., Horticulturist 2, no. 4 (October 1847): pl. opp. 153. Alexander Jackson
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  • Sterling, ed., “New Orleans, 1801: An Account by John Pintard,” Louisiana Historical Quarterly 34 (1951): 217–33, view on Zotero. Carl R. Lounsbury, ed., An
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  • West Florida, ed. Mark Van Doren (1791; repr., New York: Dover, 1928), view on Zotero. William Bartram, Travels, and Other Writings, ed. Thomas Slaughter
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  • States, ed. Emily T. Cooperman (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009), 68, view on Zotero. Thomas Jefferson, The Garden Book, ed. Edwin
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  • Landscape, ed. Rebecca Yamin and Karen Bescherer Methany (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press: 1996), 110–12, view on Zotero. William Howard Adams, ed., The
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  • Landscape-Gardening, 4th ed. (London: Longman et al., 1826), view on Zotero. André Parmentier, “The Art of Landscape Gardening,” in The New American Gardener, ed. Thomas
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  • Years of Washington Society, ed. Gaillard Hunt (New York: Charles Scribner’s, 1906), view on Zotero. William Howard Adams, ed., The Eye of Thomas Jefferson
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  • view on Zotero. William Cullen Bryant, The Letters of William Cullen Bryant, ed. William Cullen II Bryant and Thomas G. Voss (New York: Fordham University
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  • Collins & Co., 1811), 63, view on Zotero. Thomas Fessenden, ed., The New American Gardener, 1st ed. (Boston: J. B. Russell, 1828), view on Zotero. Fessenden
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  • May 26, 1742, in John Bartram, The Correspondence of John Bartram 1734–1777, ed. Edmund Berkeley and Dorothy Smith Berkeley (Gainesville, FL: University Press
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  • J. Downing, ed., Horticulturist 2, no. 4 (October 1847): pl. opp. p. 153. Anonymous, “Rustic Seat,” Montgomery Place, in A. J. Downing, ed., Horticulturist
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  • professional career. Instead, as Catherine E. Kelly has noted, Hamilton “adopt[ed] the life of a leisured, landed gentleman”—an option made possible by his
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  • in the Year 1802, 2nd ed. (London: B. Crosby & Co. and J. F. Hughes, 1805), view on Zotero. Thomas Jefferson, The Garden Book, ed. Edwin M. Betts (Philadelphia:
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  • Jackson Downing, ed., Horticulturist 4, no. 6 (December 1849): pl. opp. 249. Anonymous, A Southern Cottage Villa, in Andrew Jackson Downing, ed., Horticulturist
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  • Eliza Lucas Pinckney, The Letterbook of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, 1739–1762, ed. Elise Pinckney (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1972), view
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  • Hill the Seat of Henry Pratt Esqr.,” in Oliver Oldschool [Joseph Dennie], ed. The Port Folio (August 1813): opp. p. 166. Thomas Birch, Fairmount Water
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  • Downing, ed., Horticulturist 2, no. 4 (October 1847): 159, fig. 28. Anonymous, “Design for a Geometric Flower Garden,” in A. J. Downing, ed., Horticulturist
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  • piazzas (“bb”). J. C. Loudon, “Alcoves,” in An Encyclopaedia of Gardening, 4th ed. (1826), 356, fig. 331. J. C. Loudon, “Rustic Alcove,” Cheshunt Cottage, in
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  • Owen, describing the proposed Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (Scott, ed., 1990: n.p.) “Three spacious avenues (of the city) center within these grounds
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  • (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976), view on Zotero. Edwin Morris Betts, ed., Thomas Jefferson’s Garden Book, 1766–1824 (Philadelphia: The American Philosophical
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  • Pleasure Grounds, 1700–1830,” in Garden History: Issues, Approaches, Methods, ed. John Dixon Hunt (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
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  • Gardening, 4th ed. (1826), 813, fig. 570. J. C. (John Claudius) Loudon, Orangery at Baden Gardens, in An Encyclopædia of Gardening, new ed. (1834), 174,
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  • —Elizabeth Athens Buist, Robert, 1841, The American Flower Garden Directory, 2nd ed. (1841: 9) “The French partially adopt the. . . [Italian] system, interspersing
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  • Landscape-Gardening, 4th ed. (London: Longman et al., 1826), view on Zotero. George William Johnson, A Dictionary of Modern Gardening, ed. David Landreth (Philadelphia:
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  • University Press of Virginia, 1976–79), 184, view on Zotero. Carl R. Lounsbury, ed., An Illustrated Glossary of Early Southern Architecture and Landscape (New
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  • Academic Press, 1984), 167, view on Zotero. Thomas Jefferson, The Garden Book, ed. Edwin M. Betts (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1944), 377
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  • opp. 432. Anonymous, “View of the Vinery at Blithewood,” in A. J. Downing, ed., Horticulturist 1, no. 2 (August 1846): pl. opp. 58. James Smillie, “Lawn-Girt
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  • 13. Anonymous, “Design for a Geometric Flower Garden,” in A. J. Downing, ed., Horticulturist 2, no. 12 (June 1848): 558, fig. 67. J. C. Loudon, “View
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  • John, December 1, 1787, describing the mall in Boston, MA (quoted in Cometti, ed., 1976: 202) “After Dinner we took a walk on the Mall as it is called which
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  • Landscape Gardening 2nd ed. (1844), opp. 336. fig. 38. Printed by Gavit & Co., Albany, NY, “Prince Albert”, in Luther Tucker, ed. Cultivator 2, n.s. (1845):
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  • Museums at Stony Brook, 1987), 34–65, view on Zotero. Jacquetta M. Haley, ed., Pleasure Grounds: Andrew Jackson Downing and Montgomery Place (Tarrytown
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  • Southworth-Anthoensen, 1940), 75–76, view on Zotero. William Howard Adams, ed., The Eye of Thomas Jefferson (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1976)
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  • Fifty-Four Copper Plates, to Which Is Annexed, The Builder’s Dictionary, ed. E. Hoppus, 6th ed. (London: Printed for C. Hitch et al., 1762), view on Zotero. Noah
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  • from his own botanical writings, which led to the remark that he had “render[ed] the work rather a Gardener’s Calendar than a Supplement to a Dictionary of
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  • describing the Kingston Parish, Gloucester County, VA (quoted in Lounsbury, ed., 1994: 112) “Ordered that two dials [be] presented to the parish by the Revd
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  • 1850–51, describing slave life in Alabama and Mississippi (quoted in Breeden, ed., 1980: 120, 122–23) “One of the more prolific sources of disease among negroes
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  • Owen, describing the proposed Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (Scott, ed., 1990: n.p.) “Three spacious avenues (of the city) center within these grounds
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