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  • taken up in autumn, its roots wrapped in a little moss, and laid in a coarse box, just made close enough to keep out mice, but not to exclude the air.
    113 KB (16,648 words) - 19:41, September 21, 2021
  • placing them in succession, not in clusters; and a clump of such trees is therefore more agreable when it is extended rather in length than in breadth. .
    56 KB (7,984 words) - 14:42, March 25, 2021
  • be lost in the woods, but saw in the distance an antique building, to which our path led us. It is built of large stones, very low and singular in its form
    21 KB (2,795 words) - 15:21, November 12, 2020
  • reworked in wood in the American context. Wooden posts were used in place of piers, wooden members in place of stone fenestration, and baseboards in place
    72 KB (10,638 words) - 16:02, April 1, 2021
  • explicit descriptive language in related accounts. William Faux’s 1819 description of Nathaniel Russell’s garden in Charleston, in which he simply notes bowers
    29 KB (3,841 words) - 13:35, March 29, 2021
  • Burgis’s [A prospect of the colleges in Cambridge in New England] in New England (1743) [Fig. 1] or “Prospect of Bethabara” in Salem, North Carolina (c. 1759)
    57 KB (7,849 words) - 15:06, August 13, 2021
  • were included in the popular public gardens, such as Gray’s Tavern in Philadelphia, and Berkeley Springs in Virginia (later West Virginia). In 1762 Hannah
    35 KB (4,352 words) - 09:47, March 4, 2021
  • exhibited in small gardens either in ponds or basins, of regular geometrical or architectural forms; or in ponds or small lakes of irregular forms in imitation
    28 KB (3,634 words) - 15:51, April 8, 2021
  • their delight and in fact the heat is too great in these latitudes to allow of such English tastes to exist in the same degree at least as in the mother country
    58 KB (7,874 words) - 14:42, March 10, 2021
  • a description in the different characters in which it does not compose a feature. It forms a part of every garden in the ancient style in the various artificial
    23 KB (3,268 words) - 13:19, April 12, 2021
  • fences,” in An Encyclopædia of Gardening, 4th ed. (1826), 792, fig. 542. J. C. Loudon, Rough bench in rustic hut decorated in shrubberies, in An Encyclopædia
    37 KB (5,144 words) - 14:29, February 17, 2021
  • country-houses in the neighborhood are elegant, and some of the gardens belonging to them laid out in the English, others in the French style. In the latter
    88 KB (12,511 words) - 20:49, March 29, 2021
  • expenditure of money in building. “Defects are felt, however, not only in the style of the house but in the want of connexion with its site,—in the absence of
    38 KB (4,757 words) - 20:03, September 8, 2021
  • true beauty of an outline consists more in breaks than in sweeps; rather in angles than in rounds; in variety, not in succession. . . . “A few large parts
    58 KB (8,455 words) - 15:19, August 13, 2021
  • afford in great Gardens, where you can scarce ever have too many, there is such need of them in walking, look very well also in a Garden, when set in certain
    85 KB (11,717 words) - 17:54, April 7, 2021
  • garden, which became popular in England under the reign of William and Mary and in America in the early colonial period in both Dutch and English settlements
    19 KB (2,638 words) - 19:00, March 17, 2021
  • enjoyed in gardens laid out in even surfaces, and in right lines. His dwelling and French saloon are in accordance with the surrounding rural aspect. In his
    75 KB (10,259 words) - 13:03, April 1, 2021
  • fenced than any other in [the] vicinity” (view text). With some pride, a writer in the Horticultural Register in 1836 found Maine wanting in comparison to Massachusetts
    105 KB (14,451 words) - 18:17, September 3, 2021
  • arranged in the open air on the south of the garden. Here were most of the trees and fruits that grow in the hottest climates. Oranges, lemons, etc., in every
    48 KB (6,603 words) - 22:22, August 18, 2021
  • attend to groves in regular lines. “Groves in gardens are both ornamental and useful. They shade the walks in the borders; so that we may walk in gardens with
    80 KB (11,541 words) - 13:25, April 12, 2021
  • so-called “natural” style in America in the early 19th century, orchards became more varied in character. The 1847 plan of Point Breeze in Bordentown, New Jersey
    78 KB (11,286 words) - 15:19, August 13, 2021
  • sorts in the garden: it is principally in small patches in the borders or beds, or separately in pots; to remain where sown for flowering. Observe, in placing
    123 KB (18,641 words) - 13:30, April 12, 2021
  • example, plants were planted in free soil and in “beds and borders” in a conservatory, whereas in a greenhouse, plants were kept in pots or tubs (view text)
    122 KB (17,951 words) - 18:15, August 10, 2021

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