No comments about Gardening with stone and sand.

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1 comments about Network Version.

1. After having wandered through it a bit, this software seems to provide a good starting point for detailing. The interface is quite easy to use, and provides enough choices to make the results fairly accurate. The details that are provided form a good skeleton for devising more appropriate ones (if necessary). The only problem is that the details are completely exploded, so changing them can be tedious (i.e. altering dimensions or hatches), and depending on your office standards, there's a lot of layer work that may be done to get pen assignments and all of that done. So, at first glance it looks like a good tool for a starting point, and to provide 'place holders' for the information that's needed on the details... plus... easy to use and the graphical interface is nice.

No comments about The nineteenth century parks of Hartford: A legacy of the nation.

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2 comments about Landscape Design in Eighteenth Century Ireland.

1. There are precious few books on the history of gardening and landscape design in Ireland. Finola O'Kane's book is a considerable development in rectifying this. Her book covers several large and two smaller landscapes developed around Dublin in the eighteenth century by wealthy men and women of the largely Protestant Ascendancy. She looks at the economic and horticultural background to the gardens and estates and describes the social, aesthetic and political influences on their designers and owners. The author specifically covers the "designing women" such as Emily, Duchess of Leinster, and her sister Louisa Connolly, who were so important in the creation of these landscapes. The hydraulics and engineering, the sources of the plants (including new exotics from America) and what drove the designers and for what purpose are very well covered. The separate landscapes and their designers are fascinatingly linked together. The book is lavishly and beautifully illustrated with contemporary and modern pictures, maps, plans and designs. It is extremely well researched (as evidenced by the extensive footnotes and appendices), with a good index and excellent bibliography. This is a very readable, well-written book, which is also an important contribution, not only to the study of Irish heritage, but to that of Europe generally.



2. Landscape Design In Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Mixing Foreign Trees With The Natives is a fascinating, in-depth study of the eighteenth-century landscapes around Dublin and the gardens of the region, as well as the political, monetary, and aesthetic appreciation influences that led their owners to create them. Chapters focus especially upon Robert Molesworth's lanscape of Breckdenston, the landscape of Castletown House, Carton Demesne's work which introduced foreign trees, and the school at Frescati. Part environmental history, part narrative of the lives and decisions of wealthy individuals, part studious assessment of the ambitious large-scale projects that changed the nature of the countryside, Landscape Design In Eighteenth-Century Ireland is an absorbing and detailed scrutiny. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white as well as color images, paintings, diagrams and photographs, Landscape Design in Eighteenth-Century Ireland is virtually unique in its theme of discussion yet delves into its subject matter with such depth as to eclipse rival attempts.