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Page 37
... walls of his death chamber were therefore decorated just as a sleeping apartment might be decorated with a wall - paper illustrating every - day incidents , with trees and gardens and vine arbours depicted in the condensed form of ...
... walls of his death chamber were therefore decorated just as a sleeping apartment might be decorated with a wall - paper illustrating every - day incidents , with trees and gardens and vine arbours depicted in the condensed form of ...
Page 90
... walls of which are decorated in the Alexandrian fashion . Beyond lie the bathrooms and a kind of tennis court large enough for different games to be played by those who may be needing exercise . Opposite the middle of the cloister is a ...
... walls of which are decorated in the Alexandrian fashion . Beyond lie the bathrooms and a kind of tennis court large enough for different games to be played by those who may be needing exercise . Opposite the middle of the cloister is a ...
Page 153
... wall 3 miles long surrounded the estate - in places a double wall which supported small houses , pyramids and turrets so as to give the impression of a small town . The people had free access to the park where there were cages enclosing ...
... wall 3 miles long surrounded the estate - in places a double wall which supported small houses , pyramids and turrets so as to give the impression of a small town . The people had free access to the park where there were cages enclosing ...
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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