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• Mount Auburn Cemetery
  withdrawal from the project in 1835 and the chartering of a new, charitable organization–the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn–to oversee the site. Another
  39 KB (4,654 words) - 00:35, August 25, 2021
• Modern style/Natural style
  nearly to the edge of the river, where it terminates in a rustic arch and vase on the lawn; on each side of the walk there is turf, with circles of flowers
  40 KB (5,463 words) - 12:45, February 18, 2021
• Avenue
  taken out of the pond. The sketch of the mound also illustrates the character of the mounds in the Cherokee country; but the last have not the highway or avenue
  89 KB (11,855 words) - 18:59, August 10, 2021
• Picturesque
  re-create in the garden the experience of the natural landscape. The chief characteristics of the picturesque were surprise and variety, in contrast to the effects
  75 KB (10,259 words) - 13:03, April 1, 2021
• Cemetery/Burying ground/Burial ground
  was Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 1831 on the grounds of a former estate called “Sweet Auburn.” The founders of the so-called
  71 KB (10,152 words) - 10:36, April 6, 2021
• Landscape gardening
  worthy of notice as one of the few examples in the neighbourhood of New York, of the art of laying out a garden so as to combine the principles of landscape-gardening
  66 KB (9,707 words) - 12:44, February 18, 2021
• Fence
  for the fronts of elite dwellings and notable institutions. It was not, however, until the second quarter of the 19th century when the expansion of America’s
  105 KB (14,451 words) - 18:17, September 3, 2021
• Andrew Jackson Downing
  much of the property near the residence, limiting the scope of his landscape design. However, after selling the nursery in 1846, he developed the landscape
  60 KB (7,882 words) - 20:03, September 8, 2021
• Nursery
  and collected; and most of the seeds of the trees and shrubs would be so very soon. In one kept by an Old-German of the name of [Jacob] Sperry [in Bowery
  63 KB (9,124 words) - 09:40, April 6, 2021
• Arboretum
  properly labelled, of all the varieties of trees and shrubs that flourish in this climate” [Fig. 2]. The parallel of the museum and the arboretum also was
  16 KB (2,122 words) - 16:30, February 3, 2021
• Grove
  year—viz.—6 at the head of each of the Serpentine Walks next the Circle—26 in the Shrubbery or grove at the South end of the House & 8 in that at the No. end
  80 KB (11,541 words) - 13:25, April 12, 2021
• Pond
  might come from the sparkle of the reflecting sun, the movement of wind on the water, or from the sound of a fountain or a stream feeding the pond. Water was
  60 KB (8,442 words) - 13:41, April 12, 2021
• Eminence
  dignified height on the Potomac. . . The additions of a piazza to the water front, and of a drawing room, are proofs of the legitimacy of the General’s taste
  30 KB (3,989 words) - 13:38, April 12, 2021
• Park
  Department of States contiguous to the principle Palace and on the way leading to the Congressional House the gardens of the one together with the park and
  87 KB (12,484 words) - 13:27, April 12, 2021
• View/Vista
  and falls, the placement of pavilions at the ends of the sea wall, and the spreading angle of the brick wall marking the garden’s hypotenuse. Only those
  80 KB (11,249 words) - 19:23, August 12, 2021
• Lawn
  impracticability of giving, on acct. of the clammyness of the Earth, an even face to any more of my lawn, until the grd. should get dryer, of which there is
  108 KB (14,954 words) - 15:38, August 13, 2021
• Walk
  wood which has the smell of Mulberry. . . “[March 2]. . . Planted the remainder of the Ash Trees—in the Serpentine walks—the remainder of the fringe trees
  146 KB (20,921 words) - 14:54, August 13, 2021
• Prospect
  View/Vista of the town of Baltimore and the Point with the shiping in the harbour, the Basin and all the Small craft, with a very distant prospect down the river
  57 KB (7,849 words) - 15:06, August 13, 2021
• Greenhouse
  then took a view of the contents of the greenhouse, beautifully arranged in the open air on the south of the garden. Here were most of the trees and fruits
  122 KB (17,951 words) - 18:15, August 10, 2021
• Writing the Landscape (section Overview of Types of Garden Treatise Literature and Related Garden Sources)
  and in the government of the new nation, and the reflections of the younger man on the joys of a quiet retreat at the same time he is spending much of his
  160 KB (19,096 words) - 16:27, September 1, 2021

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