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• Seat
  shorthand for the landowner’s affluence and power. Observers such as William Hugh Grove (1732) and Thomas Gwatkin (1770) often likened seats to small villages
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• Quarter
  historical appearance of their gardens of this period. —Anne L. Helmreich Grove, William Hugh, 1732, describing Williamsburg, VA (quoted in Stiverson and Butler
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• Hedge
  by any of them committed, make reparation to the party injured.” Grove, William Hugh, 1732, describing Virginia (quoted in Stiverson and Butler 1977: 35)
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• Walk
  Society of Delaware, 1976), view on Zotero. William Cullen Bryant, The Letters of William Cullen Bryant, ed. by William Cullen II Bryant and Thomas G. Voss (New
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• Chinese manner
  repose.” William and John Halfpenny, “A Single Truss’d Bridge in the Chinese Taste,” in Rural architecture in the Chinese taste (1755), pl. 27. William and
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• Avenue
  Proprietary, William Penn, the other to his daughter, Lætitia Penn, . . .” Dec. 12th, 1698. Facsimile, Nov. 4th, 1882, by William Boogher. William Bartram,
  89 KB (11,855 words) - 18:59, August 10, 2021
• Plantation
  an example of this usage, see statements by William Marshall (1803), George Gregory (1816), and George William Johnson (1847). This type of plantation carried
  67 KB (9,385 words) - 19:03, February 3, 2021
• William Bartram
  neighbourhood. William Bartram (illustrator), Tanner (engraver), Cornus Florida L., n.d. William Bartram, Dionaea muscipula, n.d., engraving. John or William Bartram
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• Clump
  House [also known as the Holsaert House/Cobb House], 1825–30. William Satchwell Leney after Hugh Reinagle, “View of the Botanic Garden of the State of New
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• Fence
  of our bricks.” Penn, William, c. 1687, in a letter to James Harrison, inquiring about Pennsbury Manor, country estate of William Penn, near Philadelphia
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• Shrubbery
  Plot of 4-1/4 Acres,” in William H. Ranlett, The Architect (1851), vol. 2, pl. 6. "H" marks "a fruit shrubbery". John or William Bartram, "A Draught of John
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• David Hosack
  the Art of Painting], Sir William Temple, Wheatly [sic; Thomas Whately, Observations on Modern Gardening, and to Dr. [William] Falconer’s Historical View
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• Manasseh Cutler
  manner, Common, Copse, Eminence, Espalier, Fence, Gate/Gateway, Grotto, Grove, Hermitage, Labyrinth, Lawn, Mall, Mound, Orchard, Piazza, Plot/Plat, Pond
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• Charles Fraser
  Bower, Canal, Cemetery/Burying ground/Burial ground, Column/Pillar, Green, Grove, Hedge, Labyrinth, Lake, Lawn, Obelisk, Orchard, Prospect, Seat, Square,
  25 KB (3,329 words) - 18:47, August 17, 2021
• Pot
  for conveniency to lift up and down.” Hamilton, William, 1789, describing The Woodlands, seat of William Hamilton, near Philadelphia, PA (quoted in Madsen
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• Labyrinth
  description of this garden specified the location of the labyrinth, among the grove and wilderness, seen above the statue in the plan [Fig. 2]. He described
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• Orchard
  MA: E. W. Metcalf, 1832), view on Zotero. William Cullen Bryant, The Letters of William Cullen Bryant, ed. William Cullen II Bryant and Thomas G. Voss (New
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• Bartram Botanic Garden and Nursery
  period I lived in his neighbourhood. Baldwin, William, August 14, 1818, letter from Philadelphia to William Darlington (Darlington 1843: 277—78) “ I spent
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• Porch
  United States, 1790. Amy Cox, attr., Box Grove, c. 1800. Charles Fraser, A Seat on the Ashley River, April 1802. William Russell Birch, “China Retreat Pennsyl
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• Canal
  south of “GeorgeTown.” William Russell Birch, Plan of Springland, c. 1800, in Emily T. Cooperman and Lea Carson Sherk, William Birch: Picturing the American
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