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... Middle Ages is shown to advantage with a more correct propriety . In the Middle Ages , as in parts of Japan to - day , the garden was the natural and only bathroom available , and its medieval use , so it would appear , was not usually ...
... Middle Ages is shown to advantage with a more correct propriety . In the Middle Ages , as in parts of Japan to - day , the garden was the natural and only bathroom available , and its medieval use , so it would appear , was not usually ...
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... middle of a terrace gravel- walk that lies even with it , and which may be , as I remember , about 300 paces long and broad in proportion ; the border set with standard laurels , and at large distances , which have the beauty of orange ...
... middle of a terrace gravel- walk that lies even with it , and which may be , as I remember , about 300 paces long and broad in proportion ; the border set with standard laurels , and at large distances , which have the beauty of orange ...
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... middle of a terrace gravel- walk that lies even with it , and which may be , as I remember , about 300 paces long and broad in proportion ; the border set with standard laurels , and at large distances , which have the beauty of orange ...
... middle of a terrace gravel- walk that lies even with it , and which may be , as I remember , about 300 paces long and broad in proportion ; the border set with standard laurels , and at large distances , which have the beauty of orange ...
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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