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• Avenue
  (fig. 630. a); double avenues (b); avenues intersecting in the manner of a Greek cross (c); of a martyr’s cross (d); of a star (e) or of a cross patée
  89 KB (11,855 words) - 18:59, August 10, 2021
• Walk
  Oswego, NY (1809: 236) “A summer house in a tree, a fish-pond, and a gravel-walk, were finished before the end of May.” Eddis, William, October 1, 1769, describing
  146 KB (20,921 words) - 14:54, August 13, 2021
• Eminence
  describe a raised portion of a garden, an eminence generally denoted a natural feature that was larger in scale. As a building platform for a dwelling
  30 KB (3,989 words) - 13:38, April 12, 2021
• Hothouse
  [sic] to each exterior side a Kitchen Gardens. with a stately hot house on one side.” [Fig. 4] Hamilton, William, 1789, in a letter to his secretary, Benjamin
  51 KB (7,192 words) - 18:15, August 10, 2021
• Modern style/Natural style
  seat of William Pratt, Boston, MA (Horticulturist 7: 127) “OAKLEY PLACE, the residence of Mrs. PRATT, is near Mr. CUSHING’S, and presents a fine specimen
  40 KB (5,463 words) - 12:45, February 18, 2021
• Picturesque
  seat of William Pratt, Boston, MA (Horticulturist 7: 127) “OAKLEY PLACE, the residence of Mrs. PRATT, is near Mr. CUSHING’S, and presents a fine specimen
  75 KB (10,259 words) - 13:03, April 1, 2021
• Prospect
  [Fig. 11] James Gibbs, “A Circular Building in the Form of a Temple,” in A Book of Architecture (1728), pl. 72. William Burgis, [A prospect of the colleges
  57 KB (7,849 words) - 15:06, August 13, 2021
• Gardenesque
  seat of William Pratt, Boston, MA (Horticulturist 7: 127) “OAKLEY PLACE, the residence of Mrs. PRATT, is near Mr. CUSHING’S, and presents a fine specimen
  30 KB (4,397 words) - 16:03, July 14, 2020
• Greenhouse
  could be solved in the modest construction of a building with a high back wall, a low front wall, and a glazed roof above, as shown in the greenhouse at
  122 KB (17,951 words) - 18:15, August 10, 2021
• Lemon Hill
  among many others kinds. Pratt invited the public to view his rarest specimens. In June 1821, for example, Pratt exhibited a flowering aloe—one of the
  56 KB (7,302 words) - 14:17, September 1, 2021
• Henry Pratt
  city at a sheriff’s sale and, in 1820, built Whitehall, a two-and-a-half story white frame house with a two-story porch, which remained in the Pratt family
  33 KB (4,445 words) - 21:19, October 5, 2021
• Gate/Gateway
  Sans. gaut, is a way or street. In D. gat is a gap or channel. . .] “1. A large door which gives entrance into a walled city, a castle, a temple, palace
  49 KB (6,655 words) - 15:28, August 13, 2021
• View/Vista
  Ventilation of Hothouses (1850: 94-95) REFERENCE TO FIG. 32 A, A, A, A, A, A, Beds in which the plants are set out and arranged according to their methods
  80 KB (11,249 words) - 19:23, August 12, 2021
• Pond
  same family.] “1. A body of stagnant water without an outlet, larger than a puddle, and smaller than a lake; or a like body of water with a small outlet. In
  60 KB (8,442 words) - 13:41, April 12, 2021
• Grotto
  history, a large deep cavern or den in a mountain or rock. . . “GROTTO, is also used for a little artificial edifice made in a garden, in imitation of a natural
  29 KB (3,925 words) - 16:49, March 29, 2021
• Geometric style
  to form a floral picture, when well managed, as beautiful as the art of gardening will permit.” Valk, Dr. William W., June 1848, “Design for a Geometric
  29 KB (4,176 words) - 11:57, March 16, 2021
• Bower
  garden. William Dickinson Martin, in 1809, referred to a “neatly built” bower and William Bailey Lang in 1845 noted a rustic bower that had a shingle roof
  29 KB (3,841 words) - 13:35, March 29, 2021
• Jet
  the visibility of a tall jet from a distance created a dramatic effect. The effect of a single jet was also admired in the middle of a still-water basin
  23 KB (3,268 words) - 13:19, April 12, 2021
• Ancient style
  surrounded by a border of evergreen and deciduous shrubs, backed by low trees; and in the centre there should be a sundial, a vase, a statue, or a basin and
  33 KB (4,411 words) - 11:25, March 15, 2021
• Column/Pillar
  viz. a plain Dorick Column upon its Pedestal with a Vase/Urn a top, a fluted Column properly adorn’d, and a Rustick frosted Column, with a Figure a-top
  24 KB (3,316 words) - 19:57, October 30, 2020

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