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• Botanic garden (category Keywords)
  suitable space for a Botanic garden, the other to provide locations for subjects allied to agriculture, the propagation of useful and ornamental trees native
  63 KB (8,784 words) - 14:42, March 8, 2021
• Frances Palmer
  two hundred prints depicting a wide variety of subjects, including city and suburban views, marine subjects, farm scenes, suburban and country homes, western
  20 KB (2,484 words) - 13:40, September 27, 2021
• Benjamin Henry Latrobe
  3, 1820 Birth Location: England Role: Architect, Artist, Engineer Used Keywords: Alley, Arcade, Arch, Clump, Column/Pillar, Flower garden, French style
  38 KB (4,911 words) - 18:08, September 16, 2021
• Robert Mills
  August 12, 1781 Death Date: March 3, 1855 Role: Architect, Engineer Used Keywords: Arch, Avenue, Botanic garden, Canal, Column/Pillar, Fence, Fountain, Gate/Gateway
  31 KB (4,335 words) - 20:13, August 18, 2021
• National Mall
  Location: Washington, DC · 38° 53' 22.63" N, 77° 1' 22.73" W Condition: Altered Keywords: Arch; Avenue; Basin; Botanic garden; Bridge; Canal; Cascade/Cataract/Waterfall;
  34 KB (4,340 words) - 18:12, August 25, 2021
• Flower garden (category Keywords)
  coming into flower, or showing and maturing fruit or seed-vessels, offer subjects for curious observation. “Quadrangular and circular patches on the side
  123 KB (18,641 words) - 13:30, April 12, 2021
• Fence (category Keywords)
  plots [Fig. 7]. These plots, with their elaborate fences, were favorite subjects in illustrated books of the new rural cemeteries [Fig. 8]. Despite the
  105 KB (14,451 words) - 18:17, September 3, 2021
• Pleasure ground/Pleasure garden (category Keywords)
  neither be positively marked, nor constantly observed, in treating the subjects which may seem to fall under one of these heads more properly than under
  58 KB (7,874 words) - 14:42, March 10, 2021
• Samuel Vaughan
  Birth Date: April 23, 1720 Death Date: 1802 Used Keywords: Alley, Avenue, Bed, Clump, Fence, Grove, Hothouse, Kitchen garden, Lawn, Mall, Mound, Seat,
  25 KB (3,188 words) - 21:31, October 5, 2021
• Statue (category Keywords)
  Sansom, writing in 1762, called attention to the statues of mythological subjects at Judge William Peters's estate, Belmont, near Philadelphia (view text)
  60 KB (7,896 words) - 19:37, August 12, 2021
• Alexander Jackson Davis
  Date: 1892 Birth Location: New York City, New York Role: Architect Used Keywords: Avenue, Belvedere/Prospect tower/Observatory, Botanic garden, Conservatory
  38 KB (4,757 words) - 20:03, September 8, 2021
• Ferme ornée/Ornamental farm (category Keywords)
  banks, or straggle about the neighboring lawn: and the corn-fields are the subjects of every rural employment, which arable land, from seed-time to harvest
  22 KB (3,048 words) - 16:22, April 7, 2021
• Shrubbery (category Keywords)
  neither be positively marked, nor constantly observed, in treating the subjects which may seem to fall under one of these heads more properly than under
  81 KB (11,408 words) - 14:15, March 31, 2021
• Pierre-Charles L’Enfant
  Death Date: June 14, 1825 Role: Architect, Engineer, Urban designer Used Keywords: Avenue, Canal, Cascade/Cataract/Waterfall, Column/Pillar, Fountain, Obelisk
  18 KB (2,364 words) - 18:22, September 16, 2021
• Park (category Keywords)
  other, without any disparagement to either. . . “The affinity of the two subjects is so close, that it would be difficult to draw the exact line of separation
  87 KB (12,484 words) - 13:27, April 12, 2021
• Ephraim Chambers
  Date: c. 1680 Death Date: May 15, 1740 Birth Location: Kendal, England Used Keywords: Alley, Arbor, Arch, Avenue, Basin, Bath/Bathhouse, Bed, Beehive, Border
  44 KB (6,010 words) - 20:01, September 8, 2021
• Conservatory (category Keywords)
  the boxes being covered, afford an opportunity for the display of rare subjects, such as the exquisite Achimenes longiflora, gloxinias, new fuchsias, &c
  62 KB (9,081 words) - 13:02, April 1, 2021
• Landscape gardening (category Keywords)
  luxurious expenditures. We are, however, acquiring taste on this and kindred subjects, and with the increasing wealth, the general education and superior intelligence
  66 KB (9,707 words) - 12:44, February 18, 2021
• John Bartram
  Birth Date: March 23, 1699 Death Date: September 22, 1777 Used Keywords: Alley, Arbor, Bed, Border, Botanic garden, Canal, Fence, Gate/Gateway, Greenhouse
  39 KB (5,119 words) - 20:00, September 8, 2021
• William Bartram
  Birth Date: April 9, 1739 Death Date: July 22, 1823 Used Keywords: Alley, Avenue, Botanic garden, Bridge, Clump, Eminence, Green, Grove, Hothouse, Lake
  42 KB (5,973 words) - 20:00, September 8, 2021

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