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... growing of vegetables which he considers to be the duty of every housewife and husbandman to cultivate assiduously ... grown dainties , light and easy of digestion : they breed no heaviness in the head , they offend not the brain nor any ...
... growing of vegetables which he considers to be the duty of every housewife and husbandman to cultivate assiduously ... grown dainties , light and easy of digestion : they breed no heaviness in the head , they offend not the brain nor any ...
Page 134
... 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 able to name . But at least I can tell you that so sweet was the ...
... 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 able to name . But at least I can tell you that so sweet was the ...
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... growing on the heights of Westmorland . Rest Harrow , ' again , was the name for a plant which might be noticed to be growing where the oxen rested from ploughing . A great interest naturally centred round the potato , one of the most ...
... growing on the heights of Westmorland . Rest Harrow , ' again , was the name for a plant which might be noticed to be growing where the oxen rested from ploughing . A great interest naturally centred round the potato , one of the most ...
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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