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... green enclosure all around . The trees were apples , figs , pomegranates , pears , olives , and vines . Tall thriving trees confess'd the fruitful mould ; The redd'ning apple ripens into gold . Here the blue fig with luscious juice o ...
... green enclosure all around . The trees were apples , figs , pomegranates , pears , olives , and vines . Tall thriving trees confess'd the fruitful mould ; The redd'ning apple ripens into gold . Here the blue fig with luscious juice o ...
Page 32
... greens , and had , I doubt not , been cast for that purpose , if this piece of gardening had been then in as much ... green , the grotto embellished with figures of shell rock - work , fountains , and water - works . If the hill had not ...
... greens , and had , I doubt not , been cast for that purpose , if this piece of gardening had been then in as much ... green , the grotto embellished with figures of shell rock - work , fountains , and water - works . If the hill had not ...
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... greens . Firs in particular form a very ungraceful summit , all broken into angles . Sir Henry Englefield was one of the first improvers on the new style , and selected with singular taste that chief beauty of all gardens , prospect 59.
... greens . Firs in particular form a very ungraceful summit , all broken into angles . Sir Henry Englefield was one of the first improvers on the new style , and selected with singular taste that chief beauty of all gardens , prospect 59.
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