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• Ephraim Chambers
  garden-walls to consist chiefly of semicircles; each about six or eight yards in front, and two trees; and between every two semicircles, including-a space
  44 KB (6,010 words) - 20:01, September 8, 2021
• Flower garden
  the men’s side, there is a private yard for females, and the flower-garden in front of the lodge, and the paved yards connected with it are similarly arranged
  123 KB (18,641 words) - 13:30, April 12, 2021
• Parterre
  plantation near New Orleans, LA (1835: 1:81) “Situated about two hundred yards back from the river, the approach to it [the house] was by a lofty massive
  62 KB (8,610 words) - 10:50, April 6, 2021
• Veranda
  New York, NY (Journal of Medicine 10: 64) “The Physicians who object to yards, or courts, advocate, as a substitute, open verandahs guarded by lattice-work
  33 KB (4,443 words) - 08:18, April 8, 2021
• John Bartram
  edge of the property. At the opposite side, two tree-lined walks led 150 yards down a moderate slope to the river’s edge. Several of the plants cultivated
  39 KB (5,119 words) - 20:00, September 8, 2021
• G. (George) Gregory
  appearance of meanders, where the eye cannot discover more than twenty or thirty yards in length, are generally preferable to all others, and these should now and
  25 KB (3,864 words) - 17:46, September 13, 2021
• Square
  streets, and its large squares of Grass, with its neat white houses and little yards in front filled with shrubbery.” Trollope, Frances Milton, 1830, describing
  67 KB (9,305 words) - 17:36, April 8, 2021
• Blithewood
  make it evident that the distance could not have been more than twenty yards. You, sir, are acquainted with the original of this picture. You know the
  75 KB (10,290 words) - 18:14, August 24, 2021
• The Woodlands
  principal windows of the house. As the company, broken into small parties a few yards from each other, were walking slowing along this walk, a snake, supposed
  110 KB (15,513 words) - 20:48, August 30, 2021
• Fountain
  It supplies the fountains in front of the house, the cold Bath, the Barn yards, the gardens, & at different distances in the fields may be unstopped for
  68 KB (9,285 words) - 16:06, April 1, 2021
• Seat
  ridiculous to erect a pompous temple where there was not the extent of a hundred yards from the building. . . “He who would know where to place his pavilion, seat
  85 KB (11,717 words) - 17:54, April 7, 2021
• Terrace/Slope
  surrounded by a high stone wall, and on each side, at the distance of 1 or 300 yards is a large brick building, one for the Sec. of War and the other of the Navy
  72 KB (10,105 words) - 19:45, August 10, 2021
• Bath/Bathhouse
  together with the others, forms a fine stream, in some places six or eight yards wide.” Warden, David Bailie, 1816, describing Bladensburg, MD (1816: 160)
  40 KB (5,911 words) - 10:29, February 12, 2021
• Hallowell, ME
  furnish a succession of level surfaces for gardens, house-plats and court yards; and are thus very convenient, as well as sometimes very handsome. The streets
  16 KB (2,030 words) - 22:33, August 18, 2021
• Conservatory
  fine statue, symbol of Winter, & age,—& a spacious Conservatory about 200 yards to the West of the Mansion. “The Conservatory consists of a green house,
  62 KB (9,081 words) - 13:02, April 1, 2021
• Bed
  Instructions for the Cultivation of Flower Gardens, Vineyards, Nurseries, Hop Yards, Green Houses and Hot Houses (Washington, DC: Printed by Samuel H. Smith
  85 KB (12,270 words) - 16:58, April 5, 2021
• Monticello
  preparations for a kitchen garden. A park with a circumference measuring 1,850 yards had been cleared on the north side of the mountain by September. Work on
  78 KB (10,171 words) - 00:22, August 25, 2021
• Gray’s Garden
  substantial brick dwelling, on the north side of the main road, about fifty yards from the river.—This house the British also occupied; and when they evacuated
  48 KB (6,603 words) - 22:22, August 18, 2021
• Columbian Institute
  ground has been completely drained by drains extending between 400 and 500 yards in length, and in some places 3 feet deep; the canal has been deepened so
  34 KB (4,708 words) - 21:36, August 16, 2021
• Bethesda Orphan House
  of fruits, Trees, and Herbs which the country will afford,” as well as “Yards about 120 feet long, planted with orange Trees”(view text). In 1765 William
  26 KB (3,524 words) - 03:11, August 10, 2021

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