Flowers for Granddaughter Carly, no date
"Of the pleasures incidentally connected with the garden, the power of making presents of the fruits of one's own labors is certainly one of the highest. A rare bouquet to one who can appreciate its loveliness, a dish of blushing fruit, or a basket of choice vegetables, contributed on some special occasion to a friend's bill of fare--or a rich cluster of grapes to bless the fading sight of some poor consumptive, to whose parched lips they seem almost a foretaste of heaven,--affords a degree of satisfaction to the giver from being the results of his own skillful labor, which can be but faintly realized by him whose gifts involve only a demand upon his purse."
H.W.S. Cleveland, Landscape Gardening, 1855. Cleveland influenced "western" urban planning and landscape design and was also a collaborator with Olmsted on Brooklyn's Prospect Park, a codesigner of the renowned Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, etc Quoted in Cornell historian Aaron Sach's wonderful Arcadian America (2013).
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