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Page 89
... never run dry . Yet even in flood the ground is never really marshy , because the land , being on an incline , allows the water to drain into the Tiber . This river flows through the middle of the property and is deep enough to carry ...
... never run dry . Yet even in flood the ground is never really marshy , because the land , being on an incline , allows the water to drain into the Tiber . This river flows through the middle of the property and is deep enough to carry ...
Page 116
... never been lost sight of . One fact to recognize is that the character of gardening has never stood quite still in any age . In the East it has been more stable than in the West chiefly because the religious feeling has been more ...
... never been lost sight of . One fact to recognize is that the character of gardening has never stood quite still in any age . In the East it has been more stable than in the West chiefly because the religious feeling has been more ...
Page 227
... never asked or sought for any one of them , but often endeavoured to escape from them , into the ease and freedom of a private scene where a man may go his own way and his own pace in the common paths or circles of life . . . . I have ...
... never asked or sought for any one of them , but often endeavoured to escape from them , into the ease and freedom of a private scene where a man may go his own way and his own pace in the common paths or circles of life . . . . I have ...
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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