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... fruit trees and the few simple flowering plants then in cultivation growing in the grass . Or it may be a manor with a river enclosing an orchard , as in The Lay of the Little Bird , where herbs grew of every fashion - more than I am ...
... fruit trees and the few simple flowering plants then in cultivation growing in the grass . Or it may be a manor with a river enclosing an orchard , as in The Lay of the Little Bird , where herbs grew of every fashion - more than I am ...
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... fruit : from this walk are three descents by many stone - steps , in the middle and at each end , into a very large parterre . This is divided into quarters by gravel walks , and adorned with two foun- tains and eight statues in the ...
... fruit : from this walk are three descents by many stone - steps , in the middle and at each end , into a very large parterre . This is divided into quarters by gravel walks , and adorned with two foun- tains and eight statues in the ...
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... fruit : from this walk are three descents by many stone - steps , in the middle and at each end , into a very large parterre . This is divided into quarters by gravel walks , and adorned with two foun- tains and eight statues in the ...
... fruit : from this walk are three descents by many stone - steps , in the middle and at each end , into a very large parterre . This is divided into quarters by gravel walks , and adorned with two foun- tains and eight statues in the ...
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