# The book of garden design

Author: Thonger, Charles, 1882-1954; Roberts, Harry, 1871-1946 [Editor]; Good, Frank Mason, 1839-1928 [Photographer]

Genre: Category: Art

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74972

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+book+of+garden+design+Thonger&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

From the earliest times the garden has been regarded as a fitting adjunct to the dwelling-places of man. The very name seems to suggest a place of beauty and repose, where the fairest of fruits and flowers are collected into a small compass for our special pleasure and edification. The term “garden,” too, is often employed in a broader sense, meaning a tract of country, so lavishly endowed with natural beauties, as to almost suggest that it is the special property and care of some master hand, who cultivates his broad acres where we are content with inches. Eden, where, according to Milton’s famous description in “Paradise Lost,” the “cedar and pine and fir and branching palm,” mingled to...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-of-garden-design-74972/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-of-garden-design-74972/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-of-garden-design-74972/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-of-garden-design-74972/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-of-garden-design-74972/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-of-garden-design-74972/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-of-garden-design-74972/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-of-garden-design-74972/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-of-garden-design-74972/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-of-garden-design-74972/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-of-garden-design-74972/chapters/9/index.md)