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Page 90
... built round a small courtyard with a marble fountain playing in the shade of four plane trees . This building has a bedroom out of the reach of the sun . Here you never hear a sound . An adjoining dining - room is for everyday use and ...
... built round a small courtyard with a marble fountain playing in the shade of four plane trees . This building has a bedroom out of the reach of the sun . Here you never hear a sound . An adjoining dining - room is for everyday use and ...
Page 107
... built for her seven palaces , the most extraordinary and magnificent that ever were known . The first palace is of rock crystal , the second of fine steel , the fourth of brass , the fifth of touchstone , the sixth of silver , and the ...
... built for her seven palaces , the most extraordinary and magnificent that ever were known . The first palace is of rock crystal , the second of fine steel , the fourth of brass , the fifth of touchstone , the sixth of silver , and the ...
Page 287
... built the great palm - house for the Duke of Devonshire in 1840 , 300 by 123 feet , and 67 feet high , considered at the time to be the horticultural wonder of the world . He subsequently carried the new method of architecture to still ...
... built the great palm - house for the Duke of Devonshire in 1840 , 300 by 123 feet , and 67 feet high , considered at the time to be the horticultural wonder of the world . He subsequently carried the new method of architecture to still ...
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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