1870 Home Landscape Garden Designs + Gravestone Epitaphs + Paul Hayne Poem

Description: A gathering of pages from an 1870 publication ( dated " 1870 " ), containing several articles. 8 pages. 7 1/2" x 10 7/8" Includes : 1. " Queer Epitaphs " ( 1+ page ) Unusual gravestone epitaphs ; messages, carved in stone , for the living from the dead. Includes the famous epitaph of Benjamin Franklin , etc. " We joke with grim Death , living as if we thought all men mortal but ourselves. " - William M. Lackey 2. " Welcome To Winter " A poem by Paul H. Hayne ( Paul Hamilton Hayne was a Southern American poet and writer, born in in Charleston , South Carolina in 1830. Hayne's sonnets are considered his best work, of which " Welcome To Winter " is one. Hayne was appreciated even in the north and became known as an unofficial poet laureate of the South ; at least one scholar referred to him as a " Poet of the Confederacy ." He died at Grovetown , Georgia , in 1886 ). 3. " Suburban Home Grounds " ( 2 1/2 pages ) An article on the gardens and grounds of American homes , and their deficient state of landscape design and decoration. Authored by Frank Jesup Scott ( 1828 - 1919 ), a Victorian era author of a work on landscape gardening and landscape beautification. " It may not be a pleasant fact for an American to hear, but it is not the less a fact, that there is not a civilized nation which has made less advance than our own, within the last twenty years, in the arts of decorative gardening in connection with suburban homes ." " ... not one American in a hundred has ever seen a first-rate example of a well designed and well kept suburban home lot." Includes 3 illustrations ; landscape design plans for the grounds of suburban homes of 3 sizes : 1. Plan for a lawn on a lot 50 feet wide. 2. Plan of grounds for a lot 100 x 160 feet. 3. Plan of grounds for a lot 200 x 340 feet. Lawn , House Floor plan , Kitchen Garden , Fruit Trees , Rose Arbor , Flower Beds , Croquet Ground , Walkways , Cow Shed , Rubbish Yard , Wood or Coal Yard , Vegetable Garden , Berry Plants , Grape Vines , Pear Peach & Plum Orchard , Carriage House and Private Carriage Entrance , Veranda and Coach Yard , etc. 4. Variation of the Compass ( about 2/3 page ) Observations on the magnetic pole : " ... careful observations extending over a space of three hundred years , assures us that the magnetic pole is slowly but steadily changing its position from east to west, and that it will in time complete a circuit around the geographical pole ..." 5. " Max Muller " ( 2 pages ) Part of an article on Max Muller ( 1823 - 1900 ), German philologist and orientalist, who lived and studied in Britain for most of his life. Muller was one of the founders of the western academic disciplines of Indian studies and religious studies and wrote both scholarly and popular works on the subject of Indology. Includes a portrait. --------- Condition. Aged paper. Small tear at the lower margin of two pages ( about 1" ). Some staining. Otherwise good. Over 150 years old. Carefully packed for shipment to the buyer.

Price: 17.5 USD

Location: Coventry, Rhode Island

End Time: 2024-08-13T14:12:46.000Z

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