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Page 39
... included also the farm yard , stables , cattle sheds and orchards . In the garden proper the cultivation of ornamental trees was difficult from the need of incessant watering , and even then the number and selection were restricted . Of ...
... included also the farm yard , stables , cattle sheds and orchards . In the garden proper the cultivation of ornamental trees was difficult from the need of incessant watering , and even then the number and selection were restricted . Of ...
Page 179
... included within its enclosed walls the ordinary furnishing of a tree , evergreens , a fountain , herbs , and some of the simple English wild flowers . There was never anything peculiarly pretentious in its arrangement , although the ...
... included within its enclosed walls the ordinary furnishing of a tree , evergreens , a fountain , herbs , and some of the simple English wild flowers . There was never anything peculiarly pretentious in its arrangement , although the ...
Page 185
... included sixteen brazen sun - dials . To grasp all the changes that have taken place in the history of the palace gardens would be to epitomize the course of English gardening up to the time when , after it had passed through the hands ...
... included sixteen brazen sun - dials . To grasp all the changes that have taken place in the history of the palace gardens would be to epitomize the course of English gardening up to the time when , after it had passed through the hands ...
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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