Planting and rural ornament [by W.H. Marshall]., Volume 1Nicol, 1796 - 408 pages |
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Page 162
... lawns of an acre or two , which makes a pleafing variety . C ( 1 IN fome of them we plant the Cedar of Liba- nus at good diftances , fo as to form irregular groves ; and this fort of tree feems to thrive to ' admiration on the foreft ...
... lawns of an acre or two , which makes a pleafing variety . C ( 1 IN fome of them we plant the Cedar of Liba- nus at good diftances , fo as to form irregular groves ; and this fort of tree feems to thrive to ' admiration on the foreft ...
Page 210
... lawn admitted in those ' times , a circular lake the extent of magnificence . " YET though these and fuch prepofterous incon- veniences prevailed from age to age , good fenfe ' in this country had perceived the want of fome- thing at ...
... lawn admitted in those ' times , a circular lake the extent of magnificence . " YET though these and fuch prepofterous incon- veniences prevailed from age to age , good fenfe ' in this country had perceived the want of fome- thing at ...
Page 226
... lawn within ; and the garden in its turn was to be fet free from its prim regularity , that it might affort with the wilder country without . The funk fence afcertained the specific garden , but that it might not draw too obvious a line ...
... lawn within ; and the garden in its turn was to be fet free from its prim regularity , that it might affort with the wilder country without . The funk fence afcertained the specific garden , but that it might not draw too obvious a line ...
Page 227
... lawn ; ' evergreens and woods were oppofed to the glare of the champaign ; and where the view was lefs fortunate , or fo much exposed as to be beheld at once , he blotted out fome parts by thick fhades , C ' to divide it into variety ...
... lawn ; ' evergreens and woods were oppofed to the glare of the champaign ; and where the view was lefs fortunate , or fo much exposed as to be beheld at once , he blotted out fome parts by thick fhades , C ' to divide it into variety ...
Page 231
... lawn , and the folemnity of the termination at the cypreffes that lead up to his mother's tomb , are managed with exquifite judgement ; and though Lord Peterborough affifted him ་ To form his quincunx and to rank his vines , those were ...
... lawn , and the folemnity of the termination at the cypreffes that lead up to his mother's tomb , are managed with exquifite judgement ; and though Lord Peterborough affifted him ་ To form his quincunx and to rank his vines , those were ...
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Page 209 - It lies on the side of a hill (upon which the house stands), but not very steep. The length of the house, where the best rooms and of most use or pleasure are, lies upon the breadth of the garden; the great parlour...
Page 208 - 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, esteemed among the greatest wits of her time, and celebrated by Doctor Donne; and with very great care, excellent contrivance, and much cost; but greater sums may be thrown away without effect or honour, if there want sense in proportion to money...
Page 210 - 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 210 - ... 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 219 - The sunk fence ascertained the specific garden, but that it might not draw too obvious a line of distinction between the neat and the rude, the contiguous outlying parts came to be included in a kind of general...
Page 197 - ... its wooden verdure better than natural greens exposed to dust. Those treillages in the gardens at Paris, particularly on the Boulevard, have a gay and delightful effect. They form light corridores, and...
Page 211 - 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 222 - Argyle, contributed essentially to the richness of colouring so peculiar to our modern landscape. The mixture of various greens, the contrast of forms between our forest-trees and the northern and West-Indian firs and pines, are improvements more recent than Kent, or but little known to him.
Page 191 - 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 233 - It is a garden of oaks two hundred years old. If there is a fault in...