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Page 117
... delightful surroundings are depicted the great feast- ings , the meetings of kings and counsellors , the pleasures ... delighted , brilliant with bright plumaged birds and luxuriant with the blooms so prodigally bestowed by nature . In ...
... delightful surroundings are depicted the great feast- ings , the meetings of kings and counsellors , the pleasures ... delighted , brilliant with bright plumaged birds and luxuriant with the blooms so prodigally bestowed by nature . In ...
Page 146
... delighted the Roman populace . To him these were novelties of the greatest originality - the curious oddities ex- hibited in statuary , the tricks and mild horse - play that delighted those who found in gardens not only an artistic delight ...
... delighted the Roman populace . To him these were novelties of the greatest originality - the curious oddities ex- hibited in statuary , the tricks and mild horse - play that delighted those who found in gardens not only an artistic delight ...
Page 204
... delightful features of the old English herbals is to be found in the colloquial phraseology applied to plants . Pigeon's Grass ' was the name given to Vervain ; Argentine of the silver drops ' to silverweed ; ' Devil's bit of the root ...
... delightful features of the old English herbals is to be found in the colloquial phraseology applied to plants . Pigeon's Grass ' was the name given to Vervain ; Argentine of the silver drops ' to silverweed ; ' Devil's bit of the root ...
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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