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surveys broader developments in
The New Urban Landscape:The Redefinition of City
Form in Nineteenth-Century America
( Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986).Therese
O'Malley specifically relates these issues to Washington developments in “A Public
Museum of Trees” and in her Ph.D. thesis, Art and Science in American Landscape
Architecture: The National Mall in Washington, D.C. 1791-1852 (University of
Pennsylvania, 1989).
20. Scott, “This Vast Empire,” 46-48; Gutheim,
Worthy of the Nation,
54. Tamara
Plakins Thornton discusses the cultural implications of the post-revolutionary
American elite's attraction to horticulture in
Cultivating Gentlemen:The Meaning of
Country Life among the Boston Elite, 1785-1860
(Yale University Press, 1989). See
also Benson J. Lossing,
The Home of Washington: Or Mount Vernon and Its Associations,
Historical, Biographical, and Pictorial
(New York:W. A.Townsend, 1859).
21. William Bushong,
Rock Creek Park, District of Columbia: Historic Resource Study
(US Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1990), 29-32; Timothy
Davis, “Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, Washington, D.C.: The Evolution of a
Contested Urban Landscape,”
Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Land-
scapes
19 (1999), April-June, 131-133.
22. Scott, “This Vast Empire,” 47-50; Gutheim,
Worthy of the Nation,
51-53.
23. Schuyler,
Apostle of Taste,
187-211, and
The New Urban Landscape,
1-76.
24. Downing's 1851 plan for the Mall and selections from the accompanying notes
are reproduced in Reps,
Washington on View,
126, 127, and Reps,
Monumental Wash-
ington,
51-53. O'Malley analyzes Downing's design at length in “Art and Science
in American Landscape Architecture: The National Mall in Washington, D.C.
1791-1852” and in “A Public Museum of Trees.” Schuyler summarizes Downing's
Mall proposal and traces its fate in
Apostle of Taste
and in
The New Urban Landscape.
25. Gutheim,
Worthy of the Nation,
56, 90, 91.
26. Ibid., 57, 92; Reps,
Washington on View,
208, 209, 228.
27. Gutheim,
Worthy of the Nation,
84-87; Reps,
Monumental Washington,
56-61.
The street tree counts are from a 1881 Army Corps of Engineers map detail
reprinted in Junior League of Washington,
The City of Washington,
236.
28. Frederick Law Olmsted, quoted in
The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, Supple-
mentary Series Vol. 1,Writings on Public Parks, Parkways, and Park Systems,
ed. C. Bev-
eridge and C. Hoffman ( Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), 366. This volume
provides an excellent introduction to Olmsted's landscape theories. Schuyler expli-
cates Olmsted's work and writing in
The New Urban Landscape.
The definitive Olm-
