Front matter
Reading edition
1858. CENTRAL PARK. 1868.
“Meantime, with cheap land, and the pacific disposition of the people, everything invites to the arts of agriculture, of gardening, and domestic architecture. Public gardens on the scale of such plantations in Europe and Asia, are now unknown to us. There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe; such as the Boboli, in Florence, the Villa Borghese, in Rome, the Villa d’Este, in Tivoli, the gardens at Munich, and at Frankfort on the Maine: works easily imitated here, and which might well make the land dear to the citizen, and inflame patriotism.”—Emerson, 1844.
DESCRIPTION OF A PLAN FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE Central Park.
“GREENSWARD.”
[F. L. OLMSTED CALVERT VAUX.]
NEW YORK, 1858. [REPRINTED 1868.]
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