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Page 133
... garden strict and close ' : Nicolette is prisoned fast , In a vaulted chamber cast , Shaped and carven wondrous well , Painted as by miracle . In the garden from her room She might watch the roses bloom , Hear the birds make tender moan ...
... garden strict and close ' : Nicolette is prisoned fast , In a vaulted chamber cast , Shaped and carven wondrous well , Painted as by miracle . In the garden from her room She might watch the roses bloom , Hear the birds make tender moan ...
Page 179
... gardening fell sadly into neglect . The garden was then by necessity in the true sense a yard ' —a hort - yard that might almost be described as a back - yard . It included within its enclosed walls the ordinary furnishing of a tree ...
... gardening fell sadly into neglect . The garden was then by necessity in the true sense a yard ' —a hort - yard that might almost be described as a back - yard . It included within its enclosed walls the ordinary furnishing of a tree ...
Page 193
... garden linking up the garden with the outer world of fields and woods in which nature is left to exercise her sway undisturbed . CHAPTER XIII THE OLD ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN P ROFESSOR SEELEY 13 193 HAMPTON COURT AND BACON'S GARDEN.
... garden linking up the garden with the outer world of fields and woods in which nature is left to exercise her sway undisturbed . CHAPTER XIII THE OLD ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN P ROFESSOR SEELEY 13 193 HAMPTON COURT AND BACON'S GARDEN.
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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