Published: Library Of America, 2015
Description:
xx, 802 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, plans ; 21 cm.
Contents:
“…Demker : Plantings in Central Park : March 1872 -- To Gardeners : Instructions to Central Park Gardeners : April-May 1872 -- To William Robinson : "Use of the Central Park" : May 1872 -- To Samuel Bowles : Against Horace Greeley : May 1872 -- To Samuel Bowles : "Tendencies most hazardous to the nation" : May 1872 -- To Samuel Bowles : "A sharp fight" : May 1872 -- To Samuel Bowles : "The worst habit possible for a President" : May 1872 -- To the New-York Evening Post : Declining a Vice Presidential Nomination : June 1872 -- To James Miller McKim : "I would not accept an office" : June 1872 -- Report of the Landscape Architects : Prospect Park in its Eighth Year : 1874 -- The National Capitol : A Report on Renovations at the Capitol : November 1874 -- Landscape Gardening : "An ideal in view" : 1877 -- The Future of New-York : "Healthy suburban neighborhoods" : December 1879 -- "Notes" in the Special Report of the New York State Survey on the Preservation of the Scenery of Niagara Falls : Preserving Niagara Falls : March 1880 -- From The Spoils of the Park : Patronage and Corruption in the Parks Department : February 1882 -- To Oakes Angier Ames : A Civil War Memorial : April 1882 -- Trees in Streets and in Parks : "The highest value of a park" : September 1882 -- From Annual Report of the Architect of the United States Capitol : Plantings at the Capitol : 1882 -- Report on Cushing's Island : A Summer Retreat in Maine : May 1883 -- To Bronson Case Rumsey : "Suburban real estate speculations" : November 1884 -- Paper on the Back Bay Problem and Its Solution Read Before the Boston Society of Architects : A Jewel in Boston's Emerald Necklace : April 1886 -- "A Healthy Change in the Tone of the
Human Heart" : "
Local resources" : October 1886 -- To Calvert Vaux : A Dispute with a Collaborator : July 1887 -- To Frederick William Vanderbilt : Plans for a Newport Estate : August 1888 -- Foreign Plants and American Scenery : A Defense of Foreign Plants : October 1888 -- To Gen. …”
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