A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America: With a View to the Improvement of Country Residences. Comprising Historical Notices and General Principles of the Art, Directions for Laying Out Grounds and Arranging Plantations, the Description and Cultivation of Hardy Trees, Decorative Accompaniments to the House and Grounds, the Formation of Pieces of Artificial Water, Flower Gardens, Etc. With Remarks on Rural Architecture |
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Page 50
... nearly level surface , with the trees disposed either singly or in the finest groups , as if most tastefully planted centuries ago , are solely the work of nature ; and yet so entirely is the whole like the grandest planted park , that ...
... nearly level surface , with the trees disposed either singly or in the finest groups , as if most tastefully planted centuries ago , are solely the work of nature ; and yet so entirely is the whole like the grandest planted park , that ...
Page 51
... nearly half a mile in length , consisting of almost all our finer hardy trees , many of them apparently full grown , the whole of which had been planted by him when he was thirty - two years old . At that time , a solitary elm or two ...
... nearly half a mile in length , consisting of almost all our finer hardy trees , many of them apparently full grown , the whole of which had been planted by him when he was thirty - two years old . At that time , a solitary elm or two ...
Page 70
... nearly as wild as the glen where it is placed , some thatched cottage , weather stained and moss covered , that we find the Picturesque . The Temple of Jupiter Olympus in all its perfect proportions * This also explains why trees ...
... nearly as wild as the glen where it is placed , some thatched cottage , weather stained and moss covered , that we find the Picturesque . The Temple of Jupiter Olympus in all its perfect proportions * This also explains why trees ...
Page 96
... nearly at the same distance , in a circular form , and from each tree being equally pressed by his neighbor , are as like each other as so many puddings turned out of one com- mon mould . Natural groups are full of openings and hollows ...
... nearly at the same distance , in a circular form , and from each tree being equally pressed by his neighbor , are as like each other as so many puddings turned out of one com- mon mould . Natural groups are full of openings and hollows ...
Page 106
... nearly anew choosing places not for wildness and intricacy of wood , but for openness and the smiling , sunny , undulating plain , where they must of course to a good extent plant anew . After becoming well acquainted with grouping , we ...
... nearly anew choosing places not for wildness and intricacy of wood , but for openness and the smiling , sunny , undulating plain , where they must of course to a good extent plant anew . After becoming well acquainted with grouping , we ...
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Page 296 - Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs.
Page 238 - Lay a garland on my hearse Of the dismal yew ; Maidens, willow branches bear, Say I died true. My love was false, but I was firm, From my hour of birth; Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth...
Page 32 - The open field, and where the unpierced shade Imbrown'd the noontide bowers ; thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view...
Page 29 - I, for my part, do not like images cut out in juniper or other garden stuff; they be for children.
Page 85 - Consult the genius of the place in all: That tells the waters or to rise or fall; Or helps the ambitious hill the heavens to scale, Or scoops in circling theatres the vale ; Calls in the country, catches opening glades, Joins willing woods, and varies shades from shades; Now breaks, or now directs, the intending lines; Paints, as you plant, and, as you work, designs.
Page 30 - The Tower of Babel not yet finished. St. George in Box ; his arm scarce long enough, but will be in a condition to stick the Dragon by next April.
Page 32 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Page 312 - I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with lush woodbine, With sweet musk roses, and with eglantine: There sleeps Titania sometime of the night, Lulled in these flowers with dances and delight...
Page 160 - The quivering glimmer of sun and rill With a sudden flash on the eye is thrown, Like the ray that streams from the...
Page 418 - Shall fill thee with delights unfelt before, Impart to things inanimate a voice, And bid her mountains and her hills rejoice; The sound shall run along the winding vales, And thou enjoy an Eden ere it fails. Ye groves...