Country Life: A Handbook of Agriculture, Horticulture, and Landscape Gardening

by Robert Morris Copeland, William H. Tishler (Introduction)

Overview

Robert Morris Copeland (1830–1874) was one of a small number 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 many of the principles of scientific farming with landscape design. Copeland organized Country Life (1859) into an agricultural year, providing practical and aesthetic advice on a month-by-month basis according to region.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781952620157
Publisher:	Library Of American Landscape History
Publication date:	01/01/2009
Series:	ASLA Centennial Reprint Series
Pages:	992
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Robert Morris Copeland (1830–1874) was one of a small number 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 H. W. S. Cleveland, Copeland merged many of the principles of scientific farming with landscape gardening. In his short career, he created important designs for cemeteries, estates, suburbs, communities, and parks throughout 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 latest agricultural practices with new engineering methods. Handsomely illustrated with plates and woodcuts, the book sold through six editions.

What People are Saying About This

Rolf Diamant

The new reprint edition of Robert Morris Copeland's Country Life brings an influential classic back into public view. The influence of Robert Morris Copeland and George Perkins Marsh converged in Woodstock, Vermont, where Frederick Billings employed Copeland in 1869 to design his estate and begin the process of repairing its badly damaged forested landscape. The Billings property, which is today a national park, had also been home to Marsh, one of the nation's first global environmental thinkers. The tangible expression of Copeland's philosophy of 'The Useful and the Beautiful' can still be experienced and enjoyed on the reforested slopes and carriage roads of Mount Tom.

Editorial Reviews

"The new reprint edition of Robert Morris Copeland's Country Life brings an influential classic back into public view. The influence of Robert Morris Copeland and George Perkins Marsh converged in Woodstock, Vermont, where Frederick Billings employed Copeland in 1869 to design his estate and begin the process of repairing its badly damaged forested landscape. The Billings property, which is today a national park, had also been home to Marsh, one of the nation's first global environmental thinkers. The tangible expression of Copeland's philosophy of 'The Useful and the Beautiful' can still be experienced and enjoyed on the reforested slopes and carriage roads of Mount Tom."—Rolf Diamant, Superintendent, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Woodstock, Vermont

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