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Downing, Andrew Jackson

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Downing, Andrew Jackson (1815–1852)

US landscape gardener and horticulturist. He learned horticulture in his family's nursery and wrote the standard text, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1845). He used his time as editor of The Horticulturist (1846–52) to promote his views of improving properties.

He was born in Newburgh, New York. He wrote on designing both landscape and buildings in A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (1841) and Cottage Residences (1842). Influenced by current English ideas, he brought the landscape designer Calvert Vaux from England in 1850 and together they designed various projects.



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