 | Henry Nicholson Ellacombe - Daisies - 1884 - 464 pages
...an account of Levens, with a plate of the Topiarian garden, see "Archaeological Jouinal," vol. xxvi. it as much as possible. Our trees rise in cones, globes, and pyramids ; we see the mark of the scissors upon every plant and bush." But this is a digression : I must return to the Elizabethan... | |
 | England - 1888 - 844 pages
...words of the Rev. Philip Bracebridge Homer, a Rugby master at the beginning of the present century — deviate from it as much as possible. Our trees rise...cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush. I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but for my own... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1889 - 296 pages
...more charming than that neatness and elegancy which we meet with in those of our own country. . . . Our British gardeners, instead of humouring nature,...cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush." n.ilian writers, to lay hold on the present hour, to catch the... | |
 | Walter Howe - Gardening - 1890 - 332 pages
...it is that has so agreeable an effect. Our British gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humoring nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible....cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush. I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but, for my... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1898 - 478 pages
...touches and embellishments of art," and complains that " our British gardeners, instead of humoring nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible....cones, globes and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush. I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but for my own... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - Gardening - 1899 - 478 pages
...without discovering what it is, that has so agreeable an effect. Our British gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring nature, love to deviate from...cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush. I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but for my own... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - Gardening - 1899 - 474 pages
...without discovering what it is, that has so agreeable an effect. Our British gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring nature, love to deviate from...cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush. I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but for my own... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - Gardening - 1899 - 488 pages
...without discovering what it is, that has so agreeable an effect. Our British gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring nature, love to deviate from...cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush. I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but for my own... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1902 - 860 pages
...without discovering what it is that has so agreeable an effect. Our British gardeners, on the contrary, . Q "? 1902 W. & R. Chambers"% Chambers Robert" Robert Chambers( scissors upon every plant and bush. I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but for my own... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1902 - 864 pages
...without discovering what it is that has so agreeable an effect. Our British gardeners, on the contrary, into another man's- hands. ' Shew me the man, who...I'll show thee a prisoner who dreads his liberty.' scissors upon every plant and bush. I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but for my own... | |
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Our British gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible. Our trees rise in cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush. 
