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Page 115
... variety of pattern in Persian painting and textiles . These have been drawn with a skill that has scarcely been equalled in depicting the beauty of blossom and the fullness of finely delineated leafage , the trunks and branches bending ...
... variety of pattern in Persian painting and textiles . These have been drawn with a skill that has scarcely been equalled in depicting the beauty of blossom and the fullness of finely delineated leafage , the trunks and branches bending ...
Page 153
... variety of idea incor- porated in these scenes of luxurious magnificence . The first is the Villa Montragone , the largest of the Villas at Frascati , a building possessing 366 windows ( comparable with the 365 rooms at Knole ) , a ...
... variety of idea incor- porated in these scenes of luxurious magnificence . The first is the Villa Montragone , the largest of the Villas at Frascati , a building possessing 366 windows ( comparable with the 365 rooms at Knole ) , a ...
Page 289
... variety - a form of carpet - bedding with coloured foliage plants , flowering sedums and other compact varieties- turgid mosaics ' , as they have been described- which intruded their presence in the surface of the lawns . Also there ...
... variety - a form of carpet - bedding with coloured foliage plants , flowering sedums and other compact varieties- turgid mosaics ' , as they have been described- which intruded their presence in the surface of the lawns . Also there ...
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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