 is confessedly the most picturesque tree in itself, and the most accommodating in composition. It refuses no subject, either in natural or in artificial landscape. It is suited to the grandest and may with propriety be introduced into the most pastoral....  Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum - Page 1790by John Claudius Loudon - 1838Full view - About this book
 | Woodland gleanings - 1853 - 306 pages
...leaves after they had withered, till the following spring." The Oak, says Mr. Gilpin, is confessedly the most picturesque tree in itself, and the most....composition. It refuses no subject, either in natural or artificial landscape ; it is suited to the grandest, and may with propriety be introduced into the... | |
 | Henry Twining - Landscape painting - 1853 - 342 pages
...for the dignity of its station in the forest, and its usefulness to man : he maintains, " that it is the most picturesque tree in itself, and the most accommodating in composition." I can only concur in these views by limiting their application to those individual trees which, either... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Downing - Landscape gardening - 1859 - 646 pages
...protects the plains, his head the hills commands." DRYDEN'S TRANS. "The oak/' says Gilpin, "is confessedly the most picturesque tree in itself, and the most...pastoral. It adds new dignity to the ruined tower and the Gothic arch ; and by stretching its wild, moss-grown branches athwart their ivied walls; it gives... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Downing - Landscape gardening - 1859 - 680 pages
...the plains, his head the hills commands." DRY-DEN'S TRANS. "The oak," says Gilpin, "is confessedly the most picturesque tree in itself, and the most...pastoral. It adds new dignity to the ruined tower and the Gothic arch ; and by stretching its wild, moss-grown branches athwart their ivied walls, it gives... | |
 | Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club - Herefordshire (England) - 1869 - 402 pages
...lovers of the picturesque that this noble plant is as useful as it is beautiful. It is confessedly the most picturesque tree in itself, and the most...composition. It refuses no subject either in natural or artificial landscape;" and Strutt says, " Foremost in dignity and grandeur, the oak stands preeminent,... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Downing - Architecture, Domestic - 1875 - 682 pages
...the plains, his head the hills commands." DRYDEN'S TRA.NS. "The oak," says Gilpin, "is confessedly the most picturesque tree in itself, and the most...is suited to the grandest, and may with propriety he introduced into the most pastoral. It adds new dignity to the ruined tower and the Gothic arch ;... | |
 | Agriculture - 1878 - 544 pages
...who have a just appreciation of tree form and forest scenery. " It is confessedly," says Gilpin, " both the most picturesque tree in itself, and the most accommodating in composition. It is spited to the grandest, and may with propriety be introduced into the most pastoral. It adds new... | |
 | Francis George Heath - Natural history - 1886 - 474 pages
...aspect of the forest because it is a dominating figure. We entirely agree with Gilpin that it is ' the most picturesque tree in itself, and the most accommodating in composition.' He rightly adds that ' it refuses no subject either in natural or in artificial landscape. It is suited... | |
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