 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - Gardening - 1899 - 472 pages
...seat is a little fountain; and, throughout the whole hippodrome, several small rills run murmuring along, wheresoever the hand of art thought proper to conduct them ; watering here and there different spots of verdure, and in their progress refreshing the whole. — ' Letter to Apollinaris,'... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - Gardening - 1899 - 474 pages
...hippodrome, several 1 The plane-tree was nourished on wine by the Romans. B small rills run murmuring along, wheresoever the hand of art thought proper to conduct them ; watering here and there different spots of verdure, and in their progress refreshing the whole. — lLetter to Apollinaris,'... | |
 | Rose Standish Nichols - Gardens - 1902 - 512 pages
...knot of dwarf plane trees. . . . Throughout the whole hippodrome several small rills run murmuring along, wheresoever the hand of art thought proper to conduct them; watering here and there different spots of verdure, and in their progress refreshing the whole." Broad paths wide enough for... | |
 | Mary G. W. Wilson - 1913 - 168 pages
...is a little fountain, and, throughout the whole hippodrome, several small rills run murmuringalong, wheresoever the hand of art thought proper to conduct them, watering here and there different spots of verdure, and in their progress refreshing the whole. GARDENS : JOHN PARKINSON (whether... | |
 | Liberty Hyde Bailey - Botany - 1916 - 684 pages
...seat is a little fountain ; and throughout the whole Hippodrome, several small Rills run murmuring along, wheresoever the hand of Art thought proper...verdure, and in their progress refreshing the whole." The Romans, establishing themselves in England, built gardens in which topiary work was doubtless to... | |
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... the summer-house, as so many reliefs after one is wearied with walking. Near each seat is a little fountain ; and, throughout the whole hippodrome, several -small rills run murmuring along, wheresoever the hand of art thought proper to conduct them,... 
