The Book of TopiaryJ. Lane, 1904 - 80 pàgines |
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Addison allowed appearance architecture art of Topiary autumn beauty bedding plants birds BOOK box and yew BOX AT COMPTON boxwood branches century chapter clipped trees clipped yews clipping and training COMPTON WYNYATES course Cutbush DITCHEAT Dutch effect ELVASTON CASTLE especially evergreens examples of Topiary extent famous fashion feet flowers garden design gardens at Levens grass green ground grow Hampton Court Hampton Court Palace hedges herbaceous history of Gardening holly horn-beam horticulture intended keep kind labour laid landscape gardeners letter LEVENS GARDENS Levens Hall loam Lobelia cardinalis manure natural necessary nurserymen old gardens old trees ornamental PEACOCKS perennial planting Pope possible practical purpose pyramids recommended revival Romans Salvia patens shears shelter shrubs soil style of gardening suitable SWAN CUT taste terrace thing topiarists Topiary art Topiary garden training and shaping various verdant sculptures walks yew tree young growth young trees
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Pàgina 13 - To Scotland's heaths; or those that crossed the sea And drew their sounding bows at Azincour, Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers. Of vast circumference and gloom profound This solitary Tree ! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay ; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.
Pàgina 26 - Writers, who have given us an account of China, tell us the inhabitants of that country laugh at the plantations of our Europeans, which are laid out by the rule and line; because they say, any one may place trees in equal rows and uniform figures. They choose rather to show a genius in works of this nature; and therefore always conceal the art by which they direct themselves.
Pàgina 29 - For the benefit of all my loving countrymen of this curious taste, I shall here publish a catalogue of greens to be disposed of by an eminent town-gardener, who has lately applied to me upon this head. He represents that for the advancement of a politer sort of ornament in the villas and gardens adjacent to this great city, and in order to distinguish those places from the mere barbarous countries of gross nature, the world stands much in need of a virtuoso gardener, who has a turn to sculpture,...
Pàgina 22 - ... work, about twelve foot in height, by which you may go in shade into the garden. As for the making of knots or figures with divers coloured earths, that they may lie under the windows of the house on that side which the garden stands, they be but toys : you may see as good sights many times in tarts.
Pàgina 5 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Pàgina 26 - We have before observed, that there is generally in Nature something more grand and august than what we meet with in the curiosities of art. When, therefore, we see this imitated in any measure, it gives us a nobler and more exalted kind of pleasure than what we receive from the nicer and more accurate productions of art.
Pàgina 26 - A marsh overgrown with willows, or a mountain shaded with oaks, are not only more beautiful, but more beneficial, than when they lie bare and unadorned. Fields of corn make a pleasant prospect; and if the walks were a little taken care of that lie between them, if the natural embroidery of the meadows were helped and improved by some small additions of art, and the several rows of hedges set off by trees and flowers that the soil was capable of receiving, a man might make a pretty landscape of his...
Pàgina 29 - A topping Ben Jonson in laurel." "Divers eminent modern poets in bays, somewhat blighted, to be disposed of, a pennyworth." "A quickset hog, shot up into a porcupine, by its being forgot one week in rainy weather.
Pàgina 26 - Account our English Gardens are not so entertaining to the Fancy as those in France and Italy , where we see a large Extent of Ground covered over with an agreeable Mixture of Garden and Forest, which represent every where an artificial Rudeness, much more charming than that Neatness and Elegancy which we meet with in those of our own Country...
Pàgina 26 - 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 scissars upon every plant and bush. I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but, for my own part, I would rather look upon a tree in all its luxuriancy and diffusion of boughs and branches, than when it is thus cut and trimmed into a mathematical figure...