Author : J. W. Gregg
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 32,86 MB
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780666958112
Book Description
Excerpt from The Landscape Improvement of Rural School Grounds Our forefathers in New England, while facing, problems involving their very existence, did not neglect the development of their home grounds or the improvement of their village streets, as the beautiful old colonial gardens and state American elms so frequently testify. The love for beautiful gardens and well developed home grounds which were such intimste parts of their lives in the mother country, continued to manifest itself, and not until the struggle for an independent national life began, did the spirit of progress in landscape gardening begin to wane. Later, as economic conditions began to improve and the people became more prosperous, there was a renewal of interest in better home surroundings and general civic development. There were new and unimproved sections of this country, however, which in turn were destined to pass through the usual pioneer stage, but which were not quite so fortunate as New England, because colonial life with many of its cherished traditions had ceased to exist and the influence it had exerted over the landscape improvement of that sec tion was partly lost to others. The Spanish padres in the early days of California established gardens around the missions, but with the advent of the white settler and the days of '49 the interest in these gardens began to wane, and they have never since been very important factors in the landscape gardening of the state. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.