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  • ornamental landscape, serving aesthetic and agricultural purposes. As Samuel Deane explained in the New-England Farmer (1790), groves could provide shade
    80 KB (11,541 words) - 13:25, April 12, 2021
  • the term “grass-plat” to define an esplanade in a gardening context. Samuel Deane (1790) described plat as a topographically level partition of a garden
    54 KB (7,369 words) - 13:09, March 16, 2021
  • livestock were sometimes designed with a grade for drainage or runoff, as Samuel Deane (1790) suggested. The surface treatment of yards varied, as indicated
    70 KB (9,898 words) - 18:52, August 12, 2021
  • planted with trees on both sides in single or double rows, although, as Samuel Deane (1790) noted, trees might also be planted on only one side (view text)
    89 KB (11,855 words) - 18:59, August 10, 2021
  • Georgia, and North Carolina (Charleston, SC: Samuel Wright and Co., 1787), view on Zotero. Samuel Deane, The New-England Farmer, or Georgical Dictionary
    88 KB (12,511 words) - 20:49, March 29, 2021
  • lighten the unwieldiness of its bulk, and to blend graces with greatness.” Deane, Samuel, 1790, The New-England Farmer (1790: 230) “QUINCUNX ORDER, according
    58 KB (8,455 words) - 15:19, August 13, 2021
  • issues: this, by great experience, oak, ash, hazle, and withy, will do.” Deane, Samuel, 1790, New-England Farmer (1790: 62) “COPSE, or COPPICE, a piece of underwood
    23 KB (3,312 words) - 10:24, August 6, 2020
  • be proportioned to the nature of the ground or the quantity of fish.” Deane, Samuel, 1790, The New-England Farmer (1790: 222) “POND, a collection of still
    60 KB (8,442 words) - 13:41, April 12, 2021
  • four, or more principal divisions and walks, if its extent be large.” Deane, Samuel, 1790, The New-England Farmer (1790: 110–11, 155–56) “GARDEN. . . “I
    61 KB (8,699 words) - 13:31, April 12, 2021
  • wa’l-frot. s. Fruit which, to be ripened, must be planted against a wall.” Deane, Samuel, 1790, The New-England Farmer (1790: 88–89) “FENCE, a hedge, wall, ditch
    72 KB (10,638 words) - 16:02, April 1, 2021
  • must delight in it, or there will be very little hopes of success.” Deane, Samuel, 1790, The New-England Farmer (1790: 188) “NURSERY, a garden, or plantation
    63 KB (9,124 words) - 09:40, April 6, 2021
  • same purpose, and be less liable to the fire-blasts before-mentioned.” Deane, Samuel, 1790, The New-England Farmer (1790: 188–89, 197–98) “NURSERY. . . “In
    78 KB (11,286 words) - 15:19, August 13, 2021
  • Stuart] Skinner, Southwick, [James] Thacher, [William] Coxe, Dean[sic; Samuel Deane], [John] Taylor, [Stephen] Elliott, Nicholson, and others, should be
    54 KB (8,005 words) - 21:40, September 15, 2021
  • Flower-Garden, enrich’d with the most fragrant Flowers and beautiful Statues.” Deane, Samuel, 1790, The New-England Farmer (1790: 110) “GARDEN, ‘a piece of ground
    123 KB (18,641 words) - 13:30, April 12, 2021
  • on Husbandry (London: J. Whiston and B. White, 1759), view on Zotero; Samuel Deane, New-England Farmer, or Georgical Dictionary (Worcester, MA: I. Thomas
    160 KB (19,096 words) - 16:27, September 1, 2021

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