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Page 46
... picture of to - day it is possible to look back on the rural farm - garden of the ancient Greeks where- so Homer tells us - apples , pears , vines and figs and trim beds of vegetables were grown , and two springs supplied the water for ...
... picture of to - day it is possible to look back on the rural farm - garden of the ancient Greeks where- so Homer tells us - apples , pears , vines and figs and trim beds of vegetables were grown , and two springs supplied the water for ...
Page 294
... picture . The Chinese and the Japanese had a method of framing a view by the artificial expedient of erecting a rectilinear structure and thus defining the picture . The English landscape school of gardening in a similar manner ...
... picture . The Chinese and the Japanese had a method of framing a view by the artificial expedient of erecting a rectilinear structure and thus defining the picture . The English landscape school of gardening in a similar manner ...
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... picture as a series of delight- ful sketches , each of them incidental to the main effect . What Miss Jekyll felt so ... pictures ' - pictures possibly on a small and unformulated scale , yet showing how success- fully had been carried ...
... picture as a series of delight- ful sketches , each of them incidental to the main effect . What Miss Jekyll felt so ... pictures ' - pictures possibly on a small and unformulated scale , yet showing how success- fully had been carried ...
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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