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Page 64
... sense of a heritage . Pleasure gardens within a city he re- garded with suspicion , as a curious and undesirable invention . At Rome a garden was in his view properly a poor man's allotment , all that he had to provide himself with ...
... sense of a heritage . Pleasure gardens within a city he re- garded with suspicion , as a curious and undesirable invention . At Rome a garden was in his view properly a poor man's allotment , all that he had to provide himself with ...
Page 243
... sense of the word a champion of the new order . His ambition in designing a garden was to paint a field with beautiful objects , natural and artificial , disposed like colours upon a canvas ' . By profession he was originally painter of ...
... sense of the word a champion of the new order . His ambition in designing a garden was to paint a field with beautiful objects , natural and artificial , disposed like colours upon a canvas ' . By profession he was originally painter of ...
Page 311
... sense of seclusion and personal owner- ship tends to become merged in a common owner- ship , with spaces laid out in the intervals between the roads and dwellings and treated in a blame- less monotony to suit an academic taste . When ...
... sense of seclusion and personal owner- ship tends to become merged in a common owner- ship , with spaces laid out in the intervals between the roads and dwellings and treated in a blame- less monotony to suit an academic taste . When ...
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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