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Page 117
... seen carrying dishes and flagons . In these delightful surroundings are depicted the great feast- ings , the meetings of kings and counsellors , the pleasures of the chase for which the Persian para- dises were adapted , and the playing ...
... seen carrying dishes and flagons . In these delightful surroundings are depicted the great feast- ings , the meetings of kings and counsellors , the pleasures of the chase for which the Persian para- dises were adapted , and the playing ...
Page 120
... seen perched in the branches , while below ducks are swimming , with the fish under the surface of the canals visible through the transparent water . The more strictly garden - carpet of a formal char- acter was a decorated plan ...
... seen perched in the branches , while below ducks are swimming , with the fish under the surface of the canals visible through the transparent water . The more strictly garden - carpet of a formal char- acter was a decorated plan ...
Page 168
... seen lying on its side where the cover is seen divided rigidly into rectangular divisions — maybe , as many as twenty - four squares shaped irregularly with eight garden - houses set to mark the outer corners -with the same book opened ...
... seen lying on its side where the cover is seen divided rigidly into rectangular divisions — maybe , as many as twenty - four squares shaped irregularly with eight garden - houses set to mark the outer corners -with the same book opened ...
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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