The book of landscape design / by H. Stuart Ortloff and Henry B. Raymore.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, M. Barrows, 1959.Description: 316 pages illustrations 22 cmOther title:- Landscape design
- SB472 .O7
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Lending Books | Elisabeth C. Miller Library Tall Shelves | SB473 .O78 1959 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39352800177404 |
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Includes bibliographical references.
Henry Stuart Ortloff and Henry Bond Raymore established a landscape architectural firm in 1924 in Huntington, New York on Long Island, when both men were in their late 20s. They lived and worked for over 40 years at Apple Green, a late 18th house that was their combination home and office. The company, Ortloff and Raymore, became well-known for their efforts to design and encourage the building of human-friendly places using plants in urban environments.
They also designed many home gardens, published numerous books and articles on gardening, and were frequent speakers to garden clubs and plant societies. The Miller Library has two books they wrote jointly, including “A Book About Soils for the home gardener,” one of the earliest on this topic for a general audience. The library also has an earlier book by Ortloff alone (“A Garden Bluebook of Annuals and Biennials”) dedicated “To My Friend, Henry Bond Raymore.”
A search of the archives of “The Long-Islander”, a weekly newspaper published in Huntington finds frequent references to both. In the summer of 1949, they traveled in the UK and France, and Raymore sent biweekly journal reports of their travels to the newspaper, including commentaries on the dreadful food in post-war Britain and the pleasures of punting on the River Cherwell at Oxford.
They retired together to Arlington, Vermont in 1965. A client and friend from New York recalled after their deaths how she and her husband became close friends and visited them frequently at Apple Green, and continued to do so in Vermont. The two couples had a shared interest in music, and the friend regarded Ortloff and Raymore “great Anglophiles and travelers.”
“The Book of Landscape Design,” published in 1959, summarizes many of their mature ideas about designing both a home garden and a public landscape. This is a book still well worth reading for an easy understanding of complex concepts, and the continued enthusiasm the authors shared for creating beautiful spaces.
Two photographs of the men, taken from “The Long-Islander”, can be found at the Find a Grave entry for Ortloff: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111963352/henry-stuart-ortloff.
[annotation by Brian Thompson]