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... half , namely about fourteen inches , it is improper for feed - beds , and fhould either be wholly rejected , or ( if the fubftratum is not of too hungry and poisonous a nature ) be trenched a fpit and a half deep , and the crude mould ...
... half , namely about fourteen inches , it is improper for feed - beds , and fhould either be wholly rejected , or ( if the fubftratum is not of too hungry and poisonous a nature ) be trenched a fpit and a half deep , and the crude mould ...
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... half wide , with intervals of one foot and a half to two feet . Thefe dimenfions render them conve- nient to be weeded , without the plants being trod- den or kneeled upon . The METHOD OF SOWING is various : By DIB- BLING , by DRILLING ...
... half wide , with intervals of one foot and a half to two feet . Thefe dimenfions render them conve- nient to be weeded , without the plants being trod- den or kneeled upon . The METHOD OF SOWING is various : By DIB- BLING , by DRILLING ...
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... half way thro ' . it , turn the edge of the knife abruptly upwards , drawing it along the pith half an inch , or an inch , according to the fize of the layer . The whole ftool being treated in this manner , proceed to peg the layers ...
... half way thro ' . it , turn the edge of the knife abruptly upwards , drawing it along the pith half an inch , or an inch , according to the fize of the layer . The whole ftool being treated in this manner , proceed to peg the layers ...
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... half asunder , and their distance in the rows must be one foot and an half . Here they may remain till they are big enough to plant out finally , with no farther trouble than taking off unfightly fide - branches , and such as have a ...
... half asunder , and their distance in the rows must be one foot and an half . Here they may remain till they are big enough to plant out finally , with no farther trouble than taking off unfightly fide - branches , and such as have a ...
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... half long with their leaves fully ex- panded . " For fingle trees the Horfe - Chefnut stands , amongst the ornamental tribe , next to the oak ; and in the spring of the year , when its flowers are out , we know no tree equal to it in ...
... half long with their leaves fully ex- panded . " For fingle trees the Horfe - Chefnut stands , amongst the ornamental tribe , next to the oak ; and in the spring of the year , when its flowers are out , we know no tree equal to it in ...
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Page 556 - ... yet, upon the whole, be very agreeable. Something of this I have seen in some places, but heard more of it from others who have lived much among the Chineses ; a people, whose way of thinking seems to lie as wide of ours in Europe, as their country does.
Page 555 - The cloister facing the south is covered with vines, and would have been proper for an orange-house, and the other for myrtles or other more common greens, and had, I doubt not, been cast for that purpose, if this piece of gardening had been then in as much vogue as it is now.
Page 554 - The perfectest figure of a garden I ever saw, either at home or abroad, was that of Moor Park in Hertfordshire, when I knew it about thirty years ago. It was made by the Countess of Bedford...
Page 546 - When a Frenchman reads of the Garden of Eden, I do not doubt but he concludes it was something approaching to that of Versailles, with dipt hedges, berceaus, and trellis-work.
Page 552 - Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Page 555 - ... fountains and water-works. If the hill had not ended with the lower garden, and the wall were not bounded by a common way that goes through the park, they might have added a third quarter of all greens ; but this want is supplied by a garden on the other side the house, which is all of that sort, very wild, shady, and adorned with rough rock-work and fountains.
Page 556 - What I have said of the best forms of gardens, is meant only of such as are in some sort regular; for there may be other forms wholly irregular, that may, for aught I know, have more beauty than any of the others...
Page 554 - The beft figure of a garden is either a fquare or an oblong, and either upon a flat or a defcent : they have all their beauties, but the beft I efteem an oblong upon a defcent. The beauty, the air...
Page 571 - Grasmere-water; its margin is hollowed into small bays with bold eminences: some of them rocks, some of soft turf that half conceal and vary the figure of the little lake they command. From the shore a low promontory pushes itself far into the water, and on it stands a white village with the parish...
Page 556 - ... there may be more honour if they succeed well, yet there is more dishonour if they fail, and it is twenty to one they will , whereas in regular figures it is hard to make any great and remarkable faults.