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Excessive or unreasonable interest in parks, gardens, and landscaping..
For the Prussian Prince Pückler-Muskau, landscaping was an obsession — “Parkomania”— that led to bankruptcy.
He is just about sailing for Europe, with all his family, for a two years’ tour, and with Parkomania especially in his mind. There is no man of all my acquaintance so thoroughly prepared to see and enjoy the finest English places. Rare trees are his special hobby.
By the beginning of the 1900s, the popularity of lawn parks, sometimes referred to as “parkomania,” was widespread.
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Parkomania means Excessive or unreasonable interest in parks, gardens, and landscaping..
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For the Prussian Prince Pückler-Muskau, landscaping was an obsession — “Parkomania”— that led to bankruptcy.
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