GardensA nontechnical history of the great gardens, particularly of Europe, the Far East, and America. |
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1817 LIBRARIES Alton Towers American André André Le Nôtre architect architecture avenue azaleas beautiful beds borders Brown buildings built Castle centre China Claude Claude Mollet colour conifers cultivation cypresses delight Dutch early England English garden English landscape Europe exotic famous figure flowers foliage formal garden Foucquet fountains France French manner garden design Gertrude Jekyll Girardin grand manner grotto grounds Harold Peto hedges horticultural Humphry Repton Italian gardens Italy Japanese gardens jardin Jekyll lake land landscape garden late later lawns mediaeval MICHIGAN Mollet natural nineteenth century Nôtre's orangery original ornament painting palace Palladian park parterres paths Petit Trianon Philip Southcote picturesque plants pleasures Queluz Repton rhododendrons River rock rococo Rome scene seventeenth stone Stourhead style of gardening surrounded taste temple terrace trees and shrubs Tuileries UNIVERSITY valley variety Vaux-le-Vicomte Versailles Villa Lante walks wild William William Kent Witley Court woodland wrote