Country Life (1859): A Handbook of Agriculture, Horticulture, and Landscape Gardening (American Society of Landscape Architects Centennial Reprint)

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Robert Morris Copeland (1830-1874) was once one of a small collection of American landscape practitioners whose written and built work helped establish the foundations for city planning and integrated park systems. As did his colleagues Frederick Law Olmsted and Horace Cleveland, Copeland merged a few of the principles of scientific farming with landscape gardening. Despite the fact that he died at a somewhat young age, his accomplishments were substantial. He left at the back of several important designs for cemeteries, estates, suburbs, communities, and parks all the way through New England, New York, and Pennsylvania. In 1859, Copeland published Country Life, which quickly became a bible of scientific farming and landscape gardening, as it incorporated the recent agricultural practices with new engineering methods. Handsomely illustrated with plates and woodcuts, the book sold through six editions. Copeland organized the book into an agricultural year that provided practical and aesthetic advice on a month-by-month basis, in keeping with area. He dedicated the book to all lovers of nature and to all engaged in cultivating and adorning the earth, suggesting that a well-managed farm can expand the mind and ennoble the soul. A new introduction by William H. Tishler analyzes the importance of the book to mid-nineteenth-century The us and chronicles Copeland’s other important achievements, including his early concept for a metropolitan park system for Boston that foreshadowed Charles Eliot’s efforts by many years.

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