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• Fence
  Peale, Sketches of Belfield, 1810. Lewis Miller, “Jesse Hines. Black Smith, menden his pale fence,” 1813, in Lewis Miller, Sketches and Chronicles: The Reflections
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• Statue
  "i, beds, with pedestal and statue in the centre." Lewis Miller, "Statue of Franklin," in Lewis Miller, Sketches and Chronicles: The Reflections of a Nineteenth-Century
  60 KB (7,896 words) - 19:37, August 12, 2021
• Fountain
  occupied by. . . a fountain.” Lewis Miller, “Sweet Music, like the Fountain Springs,” in Orbis Pictus (c. 1849), 44. Lewis Miller, “Die Lebens Quelle,” in Orbis
  68 KB (9,285 words) - 16:06, April 1, 2021
• Portico
  about it” (). The portico served as a focal, as well as a viewing, point. Lewis Miller, for example, in 1849 wrote that at Mount Vernon the “lofty portico.
  41 KB (5,290 words) - 15:36, August 13, 2021
• Botanic garden
  of Horticulture 7 (November 1841): 404. Lewis Miller, Botanic garden at Princeton College, 1847, in Lewis Miller, Sketches and Chronicles (1966), p. 134
  63 KB (8,784 words) - 14:42, March 8, 2021
• Cemetery/Burying ground/Burial ground
  style of the art of landscape gardening.” Lewis Miller, “The Prospect Hill Cemetery” [detail], n.d., in Lewis Miller, Sketches and Chronicles: The Reflections
  71 KB (10,152 words) - 10:36, April 6, 2021
• Picturesque
  valley a feast of wonders to the lovers of the picturesque.” [Fig. 12] Miller, Lewis, June 5, 1849, describing Mount Vernon, plantation of George Washington
  75 KB (10,259 words) - 13:03, April 1, 2021
• Hermitage
  in your own taste that I should be heartily glad to show it to you.” Miller, Lewis, c. 1850, description on a drawing of an idealized scene in the Orbis
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• Obelisk
  Charles Willson Peale, Belfield Farm, Germantown, PA, Late 19th century. Lewis Miller, “Bunker Hill Monument, Boston,” in Sketches and Chronicles (1966), 147
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• Vase/Urn
  Green-Wood Illustrated (1847), opp. 15. Lewis Miller, "For a Lady's Album. . . ," in Orbis Pictus (c. 1849), 125. Lewis Miller, "Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia
  39 KB (5,376 words) - 19:23, August 12, 2021
• Copse
  detain; Here sultry Summer over-stays When Autumn chills the plain.” Miller, Lewis, June 5, 1849, describing Mount Vernon, plantation of George Washington
  23 KB (3,312 words) - 10:24, August 6, 2020
• Bower
  clematis and roses? “B. That’s a building for the use of the family.” Miller, Lewis, c. 1850, description on a drawing of an idealized scene in the Orbis
  29 KB (3,841 words) - 13:35, March 29, 2021
• Beehive
  Gardener’s Journal 13, no. 48 (June 10, 1835): 378, view on Zotero. Lewis Miller, Lewis Miller Sketches and Chronicles: The Reflections of a Nineteenth Century
  23 KB (3,186 words) - 19:23, January 25, 2021
• Orchard
  View of Salem from the West, c. 1852. Lewis Miller, "South Water Street, 1807," 1807, from the Journal of Lewis Miller, Volume I, p. 25. Courtesy of York
  78 KB (11,286 words) - 15:19, August 13, 2021
• Bed
  of the image between the two buildings. Lewis Miller, Botanic garden at Princeton College, 1847, in Lewis Miller, Sketches and Chronicles (1966), 134. “
  85 KB (12,270 words) - 16:58, April 5, 2021
• Bath/Bathhouse
  Madeleine du Pont, Octagonal Bath at Warm Springs (Berkeley Springs), 1837. Lewis Miller, “The Yellow Sulphur Springs, Montgomery County,” n.d. Pierre Pharoux
  40 KB (5,911 words) - 10:29, February 12, 2021
• Walk
  Matthew Vassar, Plan of Springside, 1851. "Willow Spring Walk (15)." Lewis Miller, Title page, Sketchbook of Landscapes in the State of Virginia (1853)
  146 KB (20,921 words) - 14:54, August 13, 2021
• Bridge
  A. J. Downing, Suspension bridge across the Canal [proposed], 1851. Lewis Miller, “The Ruin of Colonel Anderson House,” in Sketchbook of Landscapes in
  36 KB (4,966 words) - 14:26, September 1, 2021
• Pot
  1 and 2. Charles Willson Peale, View of the garden at Belfield, 1816. Lewis Miller, “Friend after Friend departs. . . ,” in Orbis Pictus (c. 1849), 119
  31 KB (4,315 words) - 17:29, March 16, 2021
• Square
  ” Beebe, Lewis, 1800, describing a Mr. Pratt’s garden (exact location undetermined) (Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Journal of Beebe Lewis, 1799–1801)
  67 KB (9,305 words) - 17:36, April 8, 2021

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