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  • Plantation
    Evergreens” to disguise bare fences. Nearly 100 years later, the American Thomas Bridgeman (1832) echoed Miller’s advice. The designer of the 1800 plan for the
    67 KB (9,385 words) - 19:03, February 3, 2021
  • Seat
    writers and observers of the American landscape. See, for example, Thomas Bridgeman (1832), Edward Sayers (1838), Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie (1839)
    85 KB (11,717 words) - 17:54, April 7, 2021
  • Wall
    of Flowering Shrubs, intermixed with laurels, and some evergreens.” Thomas Bridgeman (1832), Edward Sayers (1838), and A. J. Downing (1849) all suggested
    72 KB (10,638 words) - 16:02, April 1, 2021
  • Edging
    material—see, for example, J. C. Loudon (1826), Noah Webster (1828), Thomas Bridgeman (1832), and Robert Buist (1841)—other plants also were used, such as
    30 KB (4,314 words) - 10:44, April 6, 2021
  • Hedge
    92, view on Zotero. Thomas Bridgeman, The Young Gardener’s Assistant, 3rd ed. (New York: Geo. Robertson, 1832), view on Zotero. Thomas Fessenden, ed., The
    88 KB (12,511 words) - 20:49, March 29, 2021
  • Lawn
    Repton (1803) and J. C. Loudon (1826), and by American writers, such as Thomas Bridgeman (1832) and James E. Teschemacher (1835), the lawn was praised as a
    108 KB (14,954 words) - 15:38, August 13, 2021
  • Border
    wh[ich] have a very mean effect.” Jefferson, Thomas, June 7, 1807, describing Monticello, plantation of Thomas Jefferson, Charlottesville, VA (quoted in Betts
    49 KB (6,996 words) - 20:56, March 29, 2021
  • Kitchen garden
    vine-props are already fixed in the ground.” Jefferson, Thomas, 1804, describing Monticello, plantation of Thomas Jefferson, Charlottesville, VA (quoted in Nichols
    61 KB (8,699 words) - 13:31, April 12, 2021
  • Flower garden
    1827), view on Zotero. Thomas Fessenden, ed., The New American Gardener (Boston: J. B. Russell, 1828), view on Zotero. Thomas Bridgeman, The Young Gardener’s
    123 KB (18,641 words) - 13:30, April 12, 2021
  • Trellis
    1828), view on Zotero. Thomas Fessenden, The New American Gardener (Boston: J. B. Russell, 1828), view on Zotero. Thomas Bridgeman, The Young Gardener’s
    42 KB (5,637 words) - 13:27, April 1, 2021
  • Square
    of Alexander VII. stands in the large square of the town. Addison.” Bridgeman, Thomas, 1832, The Young Gardener’s Assistant (1832: 1) “the centre part of
    67 KB (9,305 words) - 17:36, April 8, 2021
  • Bed
    1828), view on Zotero. Thomas Bridgeman, The Young Gardener’s Assistant, 3rd ed. (New York: Geo. Robertson, 1832), view on Zotero. Thomas Fessenden, ed., The
    85 KB (12,270 words) - 16:58, April 5, 2021
  • Fence
    appear as a principal in the structure.” [Fig. 20] back up to History Bridgeman, Thomas, 1832, The Young Gardener’s Assistant (1832: 110, 134, 170) “A Flower
    105 KB (14,451 words) - 18:17, September 3, 2021
  • Ha-Ha/Sunk fence
    perhaps with a sunken fence as a guard.” Jefferson, Thomas, c. 1804, describing Monticello, plantation of Thomas Jefferson, Charlottesville, VA (quoted in Nichols
    27 KB (3,933 words) - 18:17, February 25, 2021
  • James Gibbs
    in Buckinghamshire. Collaborating with the landscape architects Charles Bridgeman (1690–1738) and Lancelot “Capability” Brown (1716–1783), Gibbs designed
    15 KB (1,940 words) - 17:37, September 13, 2021

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