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Page 103
... whole city ( namely Thebes in Egypt ) was built so hollow that the Egyptian kings were wont to lead whole armies under the houses of the said city . ' Voltaire in The Princess of Babylon gives an amusing but 103 THE JEWELLED TREE.
... whole city ( namely Thebes in Egypt ) was built so hollow that the Egyptian kings were wont to lead whole armies under the houses of the said city . ' Voltaire in The Princess of Babylon gives an amusing but 103 THE JEWELLED TREE.
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... whole country ' . I accepted the offer , and immediately found that they had been talking in terms of gardening , and that the kings and generals they had mentioned were only so many tulips , to which the gardeners , according to their ...
... whole country ' . I accepted the offer , and immediately found that they had been talking in terms of gardening , and that the kings and generals they had mentioned were only so many tulips , to which the gardeners , according to their ...
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... whole embraced in a magnificent attempt to transform the countryside into a flowering wilderness . Here is an account of the last word in modern efficiency . The town is being manicured . No vacant bit of ground has been forgotten ...
... whole embraced in a magnificent attempt to transform the countryside into a flowering wilderness . Here is an account of the last word in modern efficiency . The town is being manicured . No vacant bit of ground has been forgotten ...
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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