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• Prospect
  building; as a prospect towards the south or north. Ezek. xl.” Teschemacher, James E., November 1, 1835, “On Horticultural Architecture” (Horticultural Register
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• Plot/Plat
  triangular plot of land created by intersecting roads (view text). In James E. Teschemacher’s 1835 report of a garden building, he describes a crescent-shaped
  54 KB (7,369 words) - 13:09, March 16, 2021
• Lawn
  Rev. Manasseh Cutler, LL.D. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1987), view on Zotero. Frederick Doveton Nichols and Ralph E. Griswold, Thomas Jefferson, Landscape
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• Eminence
  EM’INENCY, n. [L. eminentia, from eminens, emineo, to stand or show itself above; e and minor, to threaten, that is, to stand or push forward. . .] “1. Elevation
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• Thicket
  Rev. Manasseh Cutler, LL.D. (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1987), view on Zotero. Frederick Doveton Nichols and Ralph E. Griswold, Thomas Jefferson
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• Cascade/Cataract/Waterfall
  may be Chinese, Grecian, or in the taste of the Lantern of Demosthenes at Athens.” Jefferson, Thomas, April 1786, describing Hagley, property of Lord Wescot
  35 KB (4,959 words) - 10:16, February 18, 2021
• Promenade
  principal street, commands a beautiful view of the river, the village of Athens opposite, the country beyond, and the towering Catskill mountains.” Hall
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• Walk
  William Mumford, Clarke’s Hall & Dock Creek, c. 1844. F. F. Judd (artist), E. B. and E. C. Kellogg (lithographers), “Retreat for the Insane, Hartford, Connecticut
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• Border
  of the central walk, is a vase, rustic basket, or other ornamental object, e. The semi-circle, embraced within the arbor, is a space laid with regular beds
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• Fence
  one story higher than common with a rich owner.” Moreau de Saint-Méry, M. L. E., May 25, 1794, describing the fences of houses in America (Roberts and Roberts
  105 KB (14,451 words) - 18:17, September 3, 2021
• William Bartram
  commercial nursery after her uncle’s death. —Lacey Baradel and Elizabeth Athens Bartram, John, March 14, 1756, in a letter to Alexander Garden (Berkeley
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• Chinese manner
  Sansom: Sense and Sensibility in the Age of the American Revolution, ed. Susan E. Klepp and Karin Wulf (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010), view on Zotero
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• Pond
  collection of aquatic plants.” Treatise writers and nurserymen such as James E. Teschemacher (1835), Robert Buist (1841), and Charles Wyllys Elliott (1848)
  60 KB (8,442 words) - 13:41, April 12, 2021
• Eliza Lucas Pinckney
  Fabric of Colonial South Carolina Life (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013), 103–104, view on Zotero; Joyce E. Chaplin, An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural
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• Grove
  intersecting in the manner of a Greek cross (c); of a martyr’s cross (d); of a star (e); or of a cross patée, or duck’s foot (patée d’oye) (f).” [Fig. 14] Webster
  80 KB (11,541 words) - 13:25, April 12, 2021
• Bower
  Rev. Manasseh Cutler, LL.D. (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1987), view on Zotero. Frederick Doveton Nichols and Ralph E. Griswold, Thomas Jefferson
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• Shrubbery
  c. 1844. Anonymous, Brother and Sister, c. 1845. F. F. Judd (artist), E. B. and E. C. Kellogg (lithographers), “Retreat for the Insane, Hartford, Connecticut
  81 KB (11,408 words) - 14:15, March 31, 2021
• Portico
  descriptions specified Doric (e.g., Centre Square in Philadelphia), Tuscan (e.g., The Woodlands near Philadelphia), or Corinthian (e.g., Ranlett’s design for
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• Mound
  Fisher, The Vale, 1820–25. Anonymous, St. Joseph’s near Emmettsburg, c. 1825. E. Mound (attr.), Nomini Hall, pre-1850. Frederick Graff, Plan of Lemon Hill
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• Square
  summer (c): 4. Resting-places (d); and a centrical covered seat and retreat (e), which, being nearly equidistant from every point may be readily gained in
  67 KB (9,305 words) - 17:36, April 8, 2021

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