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... formal architecture of the gardens and buildings of later centuries . An Egyptian villa included also the farm yard , stables , cattle sheds and orchards . In the garden proper the cultivation of ornamental trees was difficult from the ...
... formal architecture of the gardens and buildings of later centuries . An Egyptian villa included also the farm yard , stables , cattle sheds and orchards . In the garden proper the cultivation of ornamental trees was difficult from the ...
Page 90
... formal zystus arranged in a system of terraces , beginning with a walk between box hedges . You descend to a sloping garden through an avenue of box trees cut , topiary fashion , into the shapes of animals facing one another . On the ...
... formal zystus arranged in a system of terraces , beginning with a walk between box hedges . You descend to a sloping garden through an avenue of box trees cut , topiary fashion , into the shapes of animals facing one another . On the ...
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... formal , and it still remained formal when the scene shifted to the inland sea , the Mediter- ranean , which became the cradle of the civilization of Europe . This second stage of development — that around the inland sea - continued ...
... formal , and it still remained formal when the scene shifted to the inland sea , the Mediter- ranean , which became the cradle of the civilization of Europe . This second stage of development — that around the inland sea - continued ...
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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