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In 1841, Andrew Jackson Downing published the first landscape-gardening book aimed at an American audience.
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Downing was dismayed by what he saw as the general slovenliness of rural America, where pigs and poultry were allowed to roam free,
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Elizabeth Kolbert
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In 1841, Andrew Jackson Downing published the first landscape-gardening book aimed at an American audience.
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In 1841, Andrew Jackson Downing published the first landscape-gardening book aimed at an American audience.
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Downing was dismayed by what he saw as the general slovenliness of rural America, where pigs and poultry were allowed to roam free,
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His “Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening” urged readers to improve themselves by improving their front yards.
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His “Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening” urged readers to improve themselves by improving their front yards. “In the landscape garden we appeal to that sense of the Beautiful and the Perfect, which is one of the highest attributes of our nature,” it declared.
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Essential to any Perfect garden, he held, was an expanse of “grass mown into a softness like velvet.”
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A lawn came to signal its owner’s commitment to a communitarian project: the upkeep of the greensward that linked one yard to the next.
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Over the years, many alternatives to the lawn have been proposed. Pollan, in his book “Second Nature” (1991), suggests replacing parts—or all—of the lawn with garden. In “Noah’s Garden” (1993), Sara Stein, by contrast, advocates “ungardening”—essentially allowing the grass to revert to thicket.
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The anti-lawn movement has been around now for several decades. In that time, thousands of American families have dug up their lawns and put in wildflowers or meadows or vegetable gardens. In that same period, however, millions more have put in new lawns. A recent study by researchers at Ohio State University estimates that, owing to new development, the space devoted to turfgrass in the United States is growing at the rate of almost six hundred square miles a year.
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