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• Thicket
  for naturally occurring and designed features [Fig. 1]. According to Thomas Whately, whose 1770 definition was quoted or paraphrased by garden writers for
  31 KB (4,281 words) - 17:44, February 3, 2021
• Wood/Woods
  See also: Clump, Copse, Grove, Thicket, Wilderness Wood, as defined by Thomas Whately in 1770, referred to a planting feature composed of trees and shrubs
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• Vase/Urn
  periods agreed that the vase should never be placed far from the house. Thomas Whately, in his 1770 treatise, insisted that the vase “attend the mansion, and
  39 KB (5,376 words) - 19:23, August 12, 2021
• Hermitage
  therefore, often was found in an isolated part of the garden. British author Thomas Whately warned that its location should not be “close to a road,” a recommendation
  21 KB (2,795 words) - 15:21, November 12, 2020
• Statue
  style of the house and the garden scenery, as advised by British writer Thomas Whately (1770). Likewise, at Iranistan, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, statues
  60 KB (7,896 words) - 19:37, August 12, 2021
• Picturesque
  with specific compositional components detailed by theorists such as Thomas Whately and A. J. Downing. The picturesque also came to be understood as a visual
  75 KB (10,259 words) - 13:03, April 1, 2021
• Clump
  interpreted rounded, symmetrical groupings of trees as clumps. English author Thomas Whately in 1770 provided an extensive discussion of clumps that was often cited
  56 KB (7,984 words) - 14:42, March 25, 2021
• Grove
  the inclusion of flowering shrubs with evergreens and deciduous trees. Thomas Whately, however, in Observations of Modern Gardening (1770), believed that
  80 KB (11,541 words) - 13:25, April 12, 2021
• Avenue
  of 300 feet (view text). Clumped plantings were extolled further by Thomas Whately, who advocated in 1770 that the “modern” winding avenue should be used
  89 KB (11,855 words) - 18:59, August 10, 2021
• Fall/Falling garden
  Pennsylvania in the Olden Time. . . , 2 vols. (Philadelphia: E. Thomas, 1857), view on Zotero. Thomas Whately, Observations on Modern Gardening, 3rd ed. (1770; repr
  17 KB (2,281 words) - 19:45, August 10, 2021
• Rockwork/Rockery
  landscape design had been recognized since at least the 18th century. Thomas Whately, in Observations on Modern Gardening (1770), included a chapter about
  36 KB (5,332 words) - 09:57, February 18, 2021
• Bridge
  viewer to examine the wider landscape. 18th-century treatise writer Thomas Whately, a strong advocate of modeling designed landscapes after paintings,
  36 KB (4,966 words) - 14:26, September 1, 2021
• Temple
  view on Zotero. Thomas Whately, Observations on Modern Gardening, 3rd ed. (1770; repr., London: Garland, 1982), view on Zotero. Thomas A. Sheridan, A Complete
  44 KB (5,866 words) - 14:29, April 1, 2021
• Alexander Jackson Davis
  books on landscape gardening, especially the work of Humphry Repton and Thomas Whately, of whose 1770 Observations on Modern Gardening Davis asserted “this
  38 KB (4,757 words) - 20:03, September 8, 2021
• Ferme ornée/Ornamental farm
  inscriptions are lost.” Jefferson, Thomas, February 1, 1808, describing an experimental garden at Monticello, plantation of Thomas Jefferson, Charlottesville,
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• Shrubbery
  display prized plants. —Anne L. Helmreich Jefferson, Thomas, 1771, describing Monticello, plantation of Thomas Jefferson, Charlottesville, VA (1944: 27) “The
  81 KB (11,408 words) - 14:15, March 31, 2021
• Landscape gardening
  clear. Thomas Jefferson was intrigued both theoretically and experimentally by the landscape gardening movement. In this period Thomas Whately's Observations
  66 KB (9,707 words) - 12:44, February 18, 2021
• Park
  view on Zotero. Thomas Whately, Observations on Modern Gardening, 3rd ed. (1770; repr., London: Garland, 1982), view on Zotero. Thomas A. Sheridan, A Complete
  87 KB (12,484 words) - 13:27, April 12, 2021
• David Hosack
  fourth volume of the Art of Painting], Sir William Temple, Wheatly [sic; Thomas Whately, Observations on Modern Gardening, and to Dr. [William] Falconer’s Historical
  54 KB (8,005 words) - 21:40, September 15, 2021
• Lawn
  all parts of the world.” Jefferson, Thomas, c. 1804, describing improvements for Monticello, plantation of Thomas Jefferson, Charlottesville, VA (quoted
  108 KB (14,954 words) - 15:38, August 13, 2021

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