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Page 104
... pass to another Eastern decorative expression of quite a different character - the jewelled tree which was used as an image or ornament set up in the centre of a garden court or in the interior of a palace . The Golden Bough of the ...
... pass to another Eastern decorative expression of quite a different character - the jewelled tree which was used as an image or ornament set up in the centre of a garden court or in the interior of a palace . The Golden Bough of the ...
Page 172
... passing the Orangery , built like a cathedral , the Swiss Lake , so called because a Swiss regiment was employed to ... pass- ing by the Fountain of Bacchus , to enter the Ball- room , a rock - work amphitheatre ; then by Saturn to the ...
... passing the Orangery , built like a cathedral , the Swiss Lake , so called because a Swiss regiment was employed to ... pass- ing by the Fountain of Bacchus , to enter the Ball- room , a rock - work amphitheatre ; then by Saturn to the ...
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... pass for a time , is in the end classed as debased art . ' The deductions from this principle can easily be guessed : that our gardeners for ages have suffered at the hands of the decorative artist , when applying his designs ' to the ...
... pass for a time , is in the end classed as debased art . ' The deductions from this principle can easily be guessed : that our gardeners for ages have suffered at the hands of the decorative artist , when applying his designs ' to the ...
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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