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Page 197
... English flower garden . The half - century therefore to which Holinshed refers is one of the great turning points in the history of English gardening and the change can be illustrated in three different directions , all of them literary ...
... English flower garden . The half - century therefore to which Holinshed refers is one of the great turning points in the history of English gardening and the change can be illustrated in three different directions , all of them literary ...
Page 218
... gardens and the coloured materials for ornamental paths could not compare with natural English turf , parkland and variegated borders of flowers . The planting of thick groves and bosquets was discontinued in the eighteenth century as ...
... gardens and the coloured materials for ornamental paths could not compare with natural English turf , parkland and variegated borders of flowers . The planting of thick groves and bosquets was discontinued in the eighteenth century as ...
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... English gardening . There had been a habit of ' new - dressing our island ' , it was said , at intervals of approximately every twenty or thirty years . A dress of nature was as liable to the caprices of fashion as the dresses of the ...
... English gardening . There had been a habit of ' new - dressing our island ' , it was said , at intervals of approximately every twenty or thirty years . A dress of nature was as liable to the caprices of fashion as the dresses of the ...
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PARADISE | 30 |
THE YOUNGER PLINY AND THE VILLA | 81 |
THE JEWELLED TREE | 100 |
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