Planting and Rural Ornament, Volume 1G. Nicol, G.G. & J. Robinson, 1796 - Agriculture |
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... itself a unity , has hitherto been treated of as two diftinct fubjects . Books on Planting we have many ; and those on Ornamental Gardening are not lefs numerous ; but a Practical Treatife , comprehending the entire fubject of ...
... itself a unity , has hitherto been treated of as two diftinct fubjects . Books on Planting we have many ; and those on Ornamental Gardening are not lefs numerous ; but a Practical Treatife , comprehending the entire fubject of ...
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... itself of great extent and importance , to the different Works which we have published on RURAL ECO- NOMY : a lift of which will appear at the close of these Volumes . LONDON , December 1795 . PLANTING AND RURAL ORNAMENT . GENERAL VIEW ...
... itself of great extent and importance , to the different Works which we have published on RURAL ECO- NOMY : a lift of which will appear at the close of these Volumes . LONDON , December 1795 . PLANTING AND RURAL ORNAMENT . GENERAL VIEW ...
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... itself . Some feeds lie in the ground a whole year before they vegetate , and fome two or three years , as will be mentioned under their refpective Species . Dur- ing this time the beds fhould be kept free from ing MANUAL OPERATIONS . 15.
... itself . Some feeds lie in the ground a whole year before they vegetate , and fome two or three years , as will be mentioned under their refpective Species . Dur- ing this time the beds fhould be kept free from ing MANUAL OPERATIONS . 15.
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... itself muft alfo be confidered ; fo that few general directions can be given , under this head . If we say from fix to twenty - four inches in the rows , with intervals from one to four feet wide , we fhall comprehend the whole ...
... itself muft alfo be confidered ; fo that few general directions can be given , under this head . If we say from fix to twenty - four inches in the rows , with intervals from one to four feet wide , we fhall comprehend the whole ...
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... itself , or with a very little as- af fiftance , into the trench : if any licentious root or roots still have hold , cut them off with some sharp inftrument , fo as to jar the main root as little as may be . If the root was properly ...
... itself , or with a very little as- af fiftance , into the trench : if any licentious root or roots still have hold , cut them off with some sharp inftrument , fo as to jar the main root as little as may be . If the root was properly ...
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Page 212 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed 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 218 - From the middle of this parterre is a descent by many steps flying on each side of a grotto that lies between them, covered with lead and flat, into the lower garden which is all...
Page 232 - Pope's, at least in the opening and retiring shades of Venus's vale. The whole is as elegant and antique as if the emperor Julian had selected the most pleasing solitude about Daphne to enjoy a philosophic retirement.
Page 226 - The contiguous ground of the park without the sunk fence was to be harmonized with the lawn within ; and the garden in its turn was to be set free from its prim regularity, that it might assort with the wilder country without.
Page 217 - ... as I remember, about three hundred paces long, and broad in proportion; the border set with standard laurels and at large distances, which have the beauty of orange-trees out of flower and fruit. From this walk are three descents by many stone steps, in the middle and at each end, into a very large parterre. This is divided into quarters by...
Page 200 - Four acres was the' allotted space of ground, Fenced with a green enclosure all around : Tall thriving trees confess'd the fruitful mould ; The reddening apple ripens here to gold : Here the blue fig with luscious juice o'erflows, With deeper red the full pomegranate glows, The branch here bends beneath the weighty pear, And verdant olives flourish round the year.
Page 216 - 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 219 - ... 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 232 - His clumps were puny ; he aimed at immediate effect, and planted not for futurity. One fees no large woods fketched out by his direction.
Page 218 - ... 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.