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Herbert Newton Wethered. in its precision , the planting being arranged in squares and avenues with rectangular pools ... arrangement of the garden would include as many as eight separate compart- ments corresponding in number with the ...
Herbert Newton Wethered. in its precision , the planting being arranged in squares and avenues with rectangular pools ... arrangement of the garden would include as many as eight separate compart- ments corresponding in number with the ...
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... arranged chiefly for the entertainment of the ladies of the castle who were not allowed to stray far beyond the ... arrangements still the central motive , a well or fountain with its cistern , and the rest of the enclosure filled in as ...
... arranged chiefly for the entertainment of the ladies of the castle who were not allowed to stray far beyond the ... arrangements still the central motive , a well or fountain with its cistern , and the rest of the enclosure filled in as ...
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... arranged on the same principle of apartments leading from one another by avenues , vistas or stairways so that they led up to one final climax and thus gave the scheme a quality of unity and orderliness of form . The design was usually ...
... arranged on the same principle of apartments leading from one another by avenues , vistas or stairways so that they led up to one final climax and thus gave the scheme a quality of unity and orderliness of form . The design was usually ...
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