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... Evelyn , and whose garden contained ten thousand tulips ; Rapin ; * the justly celebrated Jean de la Quintinye ; Du Fresnoy ; Le Nôtre , the most celebrated gardener ( to use Mr. Loudon's words ) that perhaps ever existed ...
... Evelyn , and whose garden contained ten thousand tulips ; Rapin ; * the justly celebrated Jean de la Quintinye ; Du Fresnoy ; Le Nôtre , the most celebrated gardener ( to use Mr. Loudon's words ) that perhaps ever existed ...
Page x
... Evelyn , in the joy of his enthusiasm , exultingly transposed from Virgil : O fortunatos nimium , bona si sua norint Horticulas ! and who declared that the employ and felicity of an excellent gardener , was preferable to all other ...
... Evelyn , in the joy of his enthusiasm , exultingly transposed from Virgil : O fortunatos nimium , bona si sua norint Horticulas ! and who declared that the employ and felicity of an excellent gardener , was preferable to all other ...
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... Evelyn in the greatest of his works , his Sylva , adds to it Dr. Beale's advertisement concerning Cyder . * • * * In the above tract , Dr. Beale thus breaks out in praise of the orchards of this deep and rich county : " From the ...
... Evelyn in the greatest of his works , his Sylva , adds to it Dr. Beale's advertisement concerning Cyder . * • * * In the above tract , Dr. Beale thus breaks out in praise of the orchards of this deep and rich county : " From the ...
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... Evelyn , in which he says : " As I know nothing extant that exceeds it , so nor do I of any thing which needs be added to it . " 66 Nor have we any portrait , perhaps , of Leonard Meager's very loving friend , CAPTAIN GARRLE , dwelling ...
... Evelyn , in which he says : " As I know nothing extant that exceeds it , so nor do I of any thing which needs be added to it . " 66 Nor have we any portrait , perhaps , of Leonard Meager's very loving friend , CAPTAIN GARRLE , dwelling ...
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... Evelyn . He translated Rapin , and was author of " The Lady's Recreation , or the third and last part of Gardening ... Evelyn's advice as to having salads in each month . There is a neat cut of flower - knots , and the frontispiece ...
... Evelyn . He translated Rapin , and was author of " The Lady's Recreation , or the third and last part of Gardening ... Evelyn's advice as to having salads in each month . There is a neat cut of flower - knots , and the frontispiece ...
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adorned Anet appears in Watts's attachment to gardens AUTHORS ON GARDENING Beale beauty behold Brit cendants Claude Mollet colours countenance Cradock delightful died duke Earl edition elegant embellished Encyclopædia of Gardening ENGLISH AUTHORS engraved esteemed Evelyn excellent fleurs Flora flowers fruit trees genius Hartlib hath Henry Herefordshire History of Gardening honest honour Hoxton ingenious Jardinage John Rea justly Lady Gerard letters lived London Lord Lord Chancellor Bacon Louis Louis XIII magnificence Mason memory mentioned Mollet nature Nichols nihil noble Nouveau Dict observes Olivier de Serres Orchards ornamented parterres persons Philip Miller plants pleasant pleasure Pope PORTRAITS OF ENGLISH prefixed principle of charity published Quintinye Rapin reader realized painting rich rural Saint Germain-en-laye says smell speaks Sully sunne sweet Switzer taste terrace Thomas Whateley tion tract Uvedale Price walk Watts's Bibl Weston William Gilpin woods wrote Le Jardin