 | Sir Henry Steuart - Forests and forestry - 1828 - 536 pages
...delineated by Hentzner, are accurate copies of them. There wants nothing, as is justly remarked by Walpole, but the embroidery of a parterre, to make a Garden in the reign of Trajan serve for a description of one in that of King William. See Anecdotes of Painting, Vol. IV. That horticulture... | |
 | Sir Henry STEUART - Forests and forestry - 1828 - 606 pages
...delineated by Hentzner, are accurate copies of them. There wants nothing, as is justly remarked by Walpole, but the embroidery of a parterre, to make a Garden in the reign of Trajan serve for a description of one in that of King William. See Anecdotes of Painting, Vol. IV. That horticulture... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 806 pages
...and a straight walk, wiience issued others parted off by hedges of box and appletrees, with obelisks placed between every two. There wants nothing but...parterre, to make a garden in the reign of Trajan serve for the description of one in that of king William III. In one passage, however, Pliny seems... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 826 pages
...issued others parted off by hedges of box and appletrees, with obelisks placed between every two. Theie wants nothing but the embroidery of a parterre, to make a garden in the reign of Trajan serve for the description of one in that of king William III. In one passage, however, Pliny seems... | |
 | George Crabb - Industrial arts - 1830 - 380 pages
...of a Roman garden, as described by Pliny the younger, in which was wanted nothing but the decoration of a parterre to make a garden in the reign of Trajan to serve for a description of one in th« seventeenth century. A more correct taste in the art of gardening... | |
 | George Crabb - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 426 pages
...of a Roman garden, as described by Pliny the younger, in which was wanted nothing but the decoration of a parterre to make a garden in the reign of Trajan to serve for a description of one in the seventeenth century. A more correct taste in the art of gardening... | |
 | Sir Henry Steuart - Arboriculture - 1832 - 440 pages
...delineated by Hentzner arc accurate copies of them. There wants nothing, as is justly remarked by Walpole, but the embroidery of a parterre, to make a garden in the reign of Trajan serve for a description of one in that of King William.— See Anecdotes of Painting, Vol. IV. That... | |
 | Joseph Timothy Haydn - 1841 - 586 pages
...Of fruit, flower, and kitchen-gardens, the garden of Eden was, во doubt, the prototype. — Idem. There wants nothing but the embroidery of a parterre to make a garden in the reign of Trajan serve for a description of one in that of our William III. — Idem. The art of gardening became better... | |
 | Sir Henry STEUART - 1848 - 632 pages
...by Hentzner, are accurate copies of them. There wants nothing, as is justly remarked by Walpole, bnt the embroidery of a parterre, to make a garden in the reign of Trajan serve for a description of one in that of King William. — See Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iv. That... | |
 | Gardening - 1849 - 466 pages
...straight walk, from whence issued others parted off by hedges of box, and apple-trees, with obelisks placed between every two. There wants nothing but...parterre, to make a garden in the reign of Trajan serve for a description of one in that of King William. 2 In one passage above Pliny seems to have... | |
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... with obelisks placed between every two. There wants nothing but the embroidery of a parterre, to make a garden in the reign of Trajan serve for a description of one in that of King William. 
