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• Seat
  Edmund Quincy Esqr. J. C. Loudon, Covered seats of the rustic kind, in An Encyclopædia of Gardening, 4th ed/ (1826), 357, fig. 336. J. C. Loudon, Elegant
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• Monticello
  North America in the Years 1780, 1781, and 1782, 2 vols. (London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1787),view on Zotero. Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway, October
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• Wood/Woods
  Belfield, 1810. J. C. Loudon, The disposition of the trees within the plantation, in An Encyclopædia of Gardening (1826), 943, fig. 629. J. C. Loudon, Woods
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• View/Vista
  full advantage of their natural settings, and treatise writers such as A. J. Downing (1850) admonished gardeners to “study the character of the place”
  80 KB (11,249 words) - 19:23, August 12, 2021
• Orchard
  twice, in the lower canter and to the left. J. B. Bordley, Plan of a Farmyard, with details in section, in J. B. Bordley, Essays and Notes on Husbandry
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• Pond
  Reuben Rowley, Dr. John Safford and Family, c. 1830. David J. Kennedy, McAran’s Garden, 1840. John J. Thomas, “Plan of a Garden,” in Cultivator 9, no. 1 (January
  60 KB (8,442 words) - 13:41, April 12, 2021
• Square
  (1789), and a report on Washington, DC, by Pierre-Charles L’Enfant (1791). J.-P. Brissot de Warville in 1788 used both senses of the term in his description
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• Bowling green
  games popular in Europe and America. European garden treatises, such as A.-J. Dezallier d’Argenville’s Theory and Practice of Gardening (1712), noted that
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• Green
  rows of elms and poplars and gravel walks described by William Dickinson Martin in 1809 in Philadelphia (view text). Chronologically, these designs register
  23 KB (3,079 words) - 14:14, March 31, 2021
• Pleasure ground/Pleasure garden
  in A. J. Downing, A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, 4th ed. (1849), 118, fig. 26. “Pleasure ground” is marked as b. A. J. Downing
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• Border
  wide." J. C. Loudon, Moveable edgings: basket edging and the earthenware border, in An Encyclopaedia of Gardening (1826), 296, figs. 219 and 220. J. C. Loudon
  49 KB (6,996 words) - 20:56, March 29, 2021
• Chinese manner
  taste (1755), pl. 25. J. C. Loudon, “A plan of a Chinese garden and dwelling,” in An Encyclopaedia of Gardening (1826), 103, fig. 37. J. C. Loudon, “View/Vista
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• Arbor
  NJ: W. J. Johnson, 1975), view on Zotero. Ephraim Chambers, Cyclopaedia: Or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 2 vols. (London: J. and J. Knapton
  52 KB (6,854 words) - 17:24, August 19, 2021
• Summerhouse
  A. J. Downing, A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (1849), frontispiece. Anonymous, “The Cataract at Blithewood,” in A. J. Downing
  54 KB (7,141 words) - 13:18, April 12, 2021
• Plot/Plat
  plots at the State House in Philadelphia, according to William Dickinson Martin (1809) (view text). Such boundaries not only protected the space from destruction
  54 KB (7,369 words) - 13:09, March 16, 2021
• Obelisk
  effect as well as the historical significance of the obelisk that motivated J. C. Loudon’s recommendation of it in the garden (view text). The wave of monument
  54 KB (6,939 words) - 19:38, August 12, 2021
• Bower
  be noted, however, that this rule was not always followed. For example, A. J. Downing labeled many structures as arbors that were either round or square
  29 KB (3,841 words) - 13:35, March 29, 2021
• Pot
  the pots are set.]” [Fig. 9] J. C. Loudon, Plant boxes, in An Encyclopædia of Gardening, 4th ed. (1826), 285, figs. 177–79. J. C. Loudon, “The propagation-pot”
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• Labyrinth
  Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young, 1629; repr. Norwood, NJ: W. J. Johnson, 1975), view on Zotero. A.-J. (Antoine Joseph) Dézallier d'Argenville, The Theory and
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• Avenue
  Jacques Ramée (artist), J. Klein and V. Balch (engravers), “View of Union College in the City of Schenectady,” c. 1820. Rufus Porter and J.D. Poor, Josiah Stone
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