Planting and rural ornament [by W.H. Marshall]., Volume 1Nicol, 1796 - 408 pages |
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... produce ornamental Effects , 381 . XXV . On Single Trees , in Viftas , and on the Margins of Groves , 382 . XXVI . On_giving picturable Effect to an obscure Grove , 383 . General Remarks on Rural Embellishment , SECT . III . Minutes in ...
... produce ornamental Effects , 381 . XXV . On Single Trees , in Viftas , and on the Margins of Groves , 382 . XXVI . On_giving picturable Effect to an obscure Grove , 383 . General Remarks on Rural Embellishment , SECT . III . Minutes in ...
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... produces an almoft infinite va- riety of Plants , poffeffing various properties , and different degrees of ftrength and sta ture . In the vegetable , as in the animal world , the ftronger fubdue the weaker : the herbaceous tribes bow to ...
... produces an almoft infinite va- riety of Plants , poffeffing various properties , and different degrees of ftrength and sta ture . In the vegetable , as in the animal world , the ftronger fubdue the weaker : the herbaceous tribes bow to ...
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... produce a fupply of ship timber to this or any other nation . Far be it from us , however fashionable it may be , to fpeak irreverently of patriotifm ; we confider it as the nobleft attribute of the human mind . Young men , to whom we ...
... produce a fupply of ship timber to this or any other nation . Far be it from us , however fashionable it may be , to fpeak irreverently of patriotifm ; we confider it as the nobleft attribute of the human mind . Young men , to whom we ...
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... produced fuckers : but they should confider , that no tree or plant will produce fuckers , till it is of a fuitable fize or strength for the purpofe , any more than animals can produce young before they are of proper age ; and let them ...
... produced fuckers : but they should confider , that no tree or plant will produce fuckers , till it is of a fuitable fize or strength for the purpofe , any more than animals can produce young before they are of proper age ; and let them ...
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... producing fuckers , if they have all a like foil and fituation ; for it is peculiar to them to sport under the foil ... produced . LAYERING being an operation by which a great majority of trees and fhrubs may be propagated , and by which ...
... producing fuckers , if they have all a like foil and fituation ; for it is peculiar to them to sport under the foil ... produced . LAYERING being an operation by which a great majority of trees and fhrubs may be propagated , and by which ...
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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...