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... Grotto or cavern - cell ' -one of those incidents of natural attraction that have been reproduced artifici- ally in many European gardens where they could not have occurred of themselves . The original model of all these artificial grottos ...
... Grotto or cavern - cell ' -one of those incidents of natural attraction that have been reproduced artifici- ally in many European gardens where they could not have occurred of themselves . The original model of all these artificial grottos ...
Page 50
... grottos have been excuses for phases of ingenuity connected with water . None of the Italian or French gardens would ... grotto has enjoyed a well - deserved popularity . But one of the greatest legacies left us by Greece lies in the ...
... grottos have been excuses for phases of ingenuity connected with water . None of the Italian or French gardens would ... grotto has enjoyed a well - deserved popularity . But one of the greatest legacies left us by Greece lies in the ...
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... grotto had a fountain where every kind of animal is represented materially , emitting streams of water either by the beak , the wing , the claw , the ear or the nostril ' . This was ingenious enough , but there was also the topiary work ...
... grotto had a fountain where every kind of animal is represented materially , emitting streams of water either by the beak , the wing , the claw , the ear or the nostril ' . This was ingenious enough , but there was also the topiary work ...
Contents
PARADISE | 30 |
THE YOUNGER PLINY AND THE VILLA | 81 |
THE JEWELLED TREE | 100 |
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amongst ancient appeared architecture arrangement artificial artistic avenues beauty became beds birds built canals Capability Brown centre century Chinese Chinese gardens cloister colour court cultivation Cut-work cypress decorative delight Dutch effect Egypt England English gardening fact fashion flowering plants flowers fountain French fruit grass Greece Greek green grotto ground groves Hampton Court hedges Helen Allingham herbs hills history of gardening horticulture idea Italian Italy land landscape later lawns lines manner marble medieval ment modern motive nature never ornament painting palace paradise park parterres period Persia Persian garden phase picture plants pleasure Pliny Pope Reginald Blomfield religious Renaissance Roman Rome roses scene scheme scientific seats sense shade side space spirit style surroundings symbolism taste temple terraces tion topiary tradition trees Tudor period variety VAUX-LE-VICOMTE Versailles villas violets walks walls wild Younger Pliny