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Page 65
... Pliny's main introduction to the growing of vegetables which he considers to be the duty of every housewife and husbandman to cultivate assiduously , in order to supply the table and the medicine chest . The thriftless preferred to buy ...
... Pliny's main introduction to the growing of vegetables which he considers to be the duty of every housewife and husbandman to cultivate assiduously , in order to supply the table and the medicine chest . The thriftless preferred to buy ...
Page 93
... Pliny's account it would have been impossible to judge how near the Empire gardens were to those of the Renaissance ... Pliny's time and is clearly described by him , it is curious to note how architects and antiquaries have busied ...
... Pliny's account it would have been impossible to judge how near the Empire gardens were to those of the Renaissance ... Pliny's time and is clearly described by him , it is curious to note how architects and antiquaries have busied ...
Page 95
... Pliny gives of the nouveau riche of his day . A certain Regulus is quoted as an example of the vulgarian who found pleasure in fantastic superficialities . As typical of his exaggerated osten- tation Pliny mentions that he had mourned ...
... Pliny gives of the nouveau riche of his day . A certain Regulus is quoted as an example of the vulgarian who found pleasure in fantastic superficialities . As typical of his exaggerated osten- tation Pliny mentions that he had mourned ...
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amongst ancient appeared architecture arrangement artificial artistic avenues beauty became beds birds built canals Capability Brown centre century charm 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 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