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Page 34 - I entend to be, raised upon a Bancke, not Steepe, but gently Slope, of some Six Foot, set all with Flowers. Also I understand, that this Square of the Garden, should not be the whole Breadth of the Ground, but to leave...
Page 232 - Bring here the pink and purple columbine, With gilliflowers; Bring coronations and sops in wine, Worne of paramours; Strow me the ground with daffadowndillies, And cowslips and kingcups and loved lilies; The pretty paunce And the chevisance Shall match with the fair flowerdelice.
Page 54 - Platts, embroydered ; in the midst of which are ffoure fountaynes with statues of marble in their midle, and on the sides of those Platts are the Platts of fflowers, and beyond them is the little Terrass rased for the more advantage of beholding those Platts, this for the first division.
Page 25 - My gardens sweet, enclosed with walles strong, Embanked with benches to sytt and take my rest, The knots so enknotted, it cannot be exprest ; With arbors and alyes so pleasant and so dulce, The pestylent ayers with flavors to repulse.
Page 89 - There were thickets of flowering shrubs, a bower, and an arbour, to which access was obtained through a little maze of contorted walks, calling itself a labyrinth. In the centre of the bower was a splendid platanus, or Oriental plane - a huge hill of leaves - one of the noblest specimens of that regularly...
Page 7 - Deception is a primary object of the landscape gardener, and thus to get variety and to deceive the eye into supposing that the garden is larger than it is, the paths are made to wind about in all directions, and the lawns are not to be left in broad expanse, but dotted about with pampas grasses, foreign shrubs, or anything else that will break up the surface.
Page 227 - Sir Joshua delighted to place in the wings of his pictures. And what more magnificent than a long avenue of these floral giants, the double and the single, not too straightly tied, backed by a dark thick hedge of old-fashioned yew? Yet how seldom, now-adays, is either of these sights to be seen ! The dahlia has banished the hollyhock, with its old friend the sunflower, into the cottage garden, where it still flanks the little walk that leads from the wicket to the porch — not the only inTHE POETRY...
Page 48 - Dyer than imitate his workmanship, colouring not only the earth but decking the ayre, and sweetening every breath and spirit. " The rose red, damaske, velvet, and double double province rose, the sweet muske rose double and single, the double and single white rose...
Page 48 - What can your eye desire to see, your ears to hear, your mouth to taste, or your nose to smell, that is not to be had in an Orchard?
Page 21 - We are apt to think that Sir William Temple, and King William, were in a manner the introducers of gardening into England. By the description of Lord Burleigh's gardens at Theobalds, and of those at Nonsuch, we find that the magnificent, though false taste, was known here as early as the reigns of Henry VIII., and his daughter. There is scarce an unnatural and sumptuous impropriety at Versailles which we do not find in Hentzner's description of the gardens above mentioned.