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- (fig. 630. a); double avenues (b); avenues intersecting in the manner of a Greek cross (c); of a martyr’s cross (d); of a star (e) or of a cross patée89 KB (11,855 words) - 18:59, August 10, 2021
- Oswego, NY (1809: 236) “A summer house in a tree, a fish-pond, and a gravel-walk, were finished before the end of May.” Eddis, William, October 1, 1769, describing146 KB (20,921 words) - 14:54, August 13, 2021
- describe a raised portion of a garden, an eminence generally denoted a natural feature that was larger in scale. As a building platform for a dwelling30 KB (3,989 words) - 13:38, April 12, 2021
- [sic] to each exterior side a Kitchen Gardens. with a stately hot house on one side.” [Fig. 4] Hamilton, William, 1789, in a letter to his secretary, Benjamin51 KB (7,192 words) - 18:15, August 10, 2021
- seat of William Pratt, Boston, MA (Horticulturist 7: 127) “OAKLEY PLACE, the residence of Mrs. PRATT, is near Mr. CUSHING’S, and presents a fine specimen40 KB (5,463 words) - 12:45, February 18, 2021
- seat of William Pratt, Boston, MA (Horticulturist 7: 127) “OAKLEY PLACE, the residence of Mrs. PRATT, is near Mr. CUSHING’S, and presents a fine specimen75 KB (10,259 words) - 13:03, April 1, 2021
- [Fig. 11] James Gibbs, “A Circular Building in the Form of a Temple,” in A Book of Architecture (1728), pl. 72. William Burgis, [A prospect of the colleges57 KB (7,849 words) - 15:06, August 13, 2021
- seat of William Pratt, Boston, MA (Horticulturist 7: 127) “OAKLEY PLACE, the residence of Mrs. PRATT, is near Mr. CUSHING’S, and presents a fine specimen30 KB (4,397 words) - 16:03, July 14, 2020
- could be solved in the modest construction of a building with a high back wall, a low front wall, and a glazed roof above, as shown in the greenhouse at122 KB (17,951 words) - 18:15, August 10, 2021
- among many others kinds. Pratt invited the public to view his rarest specimens. In June 1821, for example, Pratt exhibited a flowering aloe—one of the56 KB (7,302 words) - 14:17, September 1, 2021
- city at a sheriff’s sale and, in 1820, built Whitehall, a two-and-a-half story white frame house with a two-story porch, which remained in the Pratt family33 KB (4,445 words) - 21:19, October 5, 2021
- Sans. gaut, is a way or street. In D. gat is a gap or channel. . .] “1. A large door which gives entrance into a walled city, a castle, a temple, palace49 KB (6,655 words) - 15:28, August 13, 2021
- Ventilation of Hothouses (1850: 94-95) REFERENCE TO FIG. 32 A, A, A, A, A, A, Beds in which the plants are set out and arranged according to their methods80 KB (11,249 words) - 19:23, August 12, 2021
- same family.] “1. A body of stagnant water without an outlet, larger than a puddle, and smaller than a lake; or a like body of water with a small outlet. In60 KB (8,442 words) - 13:41, April 12, 2021
- history, a large deep cavern or den in a mountain or rock. . . “GROTTO, is also used for a little artificial edifice made in a garden, in imitation of a natural29 KB (3,925 words) - 16:49, March 29, 2021
- to form a floral picture, when well managed, as beautiful as the art of gardening will permit.” Valk, Dr. William W., June 1848, “Design for a Geometric29 KB (4,176 words) - 11:57, March 16, 2021
- garden. William Dickinson Martin, in 1809, referred to a “neatly built” bower and William Bailey Lang in 1845 noted a rustic bower that had a shingle roof29 KB (3,841 words) - 13:35, March 29, 2021
- the visibility of a tall jet from a distance created a dramatic effect. The effect of a single jet was also admired in the middle of a still-water basin23 KB (3,268 words) - 13:19, April 12, 2021
- surrounded by a border of evergreen and deciduous shrubs, backed by low trees; and in the centre there should be a sundial, a vase, a statue, or a basin and33 KB (4,411 words) - 11:25, March 15, 2021
- viz. a plain Dorick Column upon its Pedestal with a Vase/Urn a top, a fluted Column properly adorn’d, and a Rustick frosted Column, with a Figure a-top24 KB (3,316 words) - 19:57, October 30, 2020
- intense and more artificial culture of a Hot-house. . . “A Green-house may be made a very ornamental object as a structure; the plants within comprise some62 KB (9,081 words) - 13:02, April 1, 2021
- as George William Johnson in A Dictionary of Modern Gardening (1847) who recommended bridges as a means to create the illusion that a pond was a river or36 KB (4,966 words) - 14:26, September 1, 2021
- there is a descent not far from the house;— you have a fine garden; then you descend a few steps and have another fine garden; you go down a few more and17 KB (2,281 words) - 19:45, August 10, 2021
- plantation of a garden. Milton. . . “PLOT, n. [a different orthography of plat.] “1. A plat or small extent of ground, as a garden plot. Locke. “2. A plantation54 KB (7,369 words) - 13:09, March 16, 2021
- upon its Pedestal with a Vase a top, a fluted Column properly adorn’d, and a Rustick frosted Column, with a Figure a-top, as I have made them for several37 KB (5,144 words) - 14:29, February 17, 2021
- like [a] Gate Way with a step to form a seat, and above, steps painted as representing a passage through an Arch beyond which was represented a western85 KB (11,717 words) - 17:54, April 7, 2021
- admitt a prospect [of] the length of the garden thro' a broad gravel walk, to a large hansome summer house in a grean, from these Windows down a Wisto terminated60 KB (7,896 words) - 19:37, August 12, 2021
- may be of that material. A flued wall may be termed a hollow wall, in which the vacuity is thrown into compartments (a, a, a, a), to facilitate the circulation72 KB (10,638 words) - 16:02, April 1, 2021
- taste, a few may think such a gradation conduces to general harmony. “In a flat, or confined situation, a terrace with sloping grass banks may create a prospect72 KB (10,105 words) - 19:45, August 10, 2021
- For example, some are intended to represent a dome, and others a convolvulus, a basket, a wheatsheaf, and a variety of other devices. The water from these68 KB (9,285 words) - 16:06, April 1, 2021
- totaling a little over 42 acres. Several months later, Pratt paid Morris $750 for the greenhouse plants. Almost immediately, Pratt began erecting a manor24 KB (2,854 words) - 18:21, August 17, 2021
- signifies a mass or collection. . .] “1. A thick, short piece of wood, or other solid substance; a shapeless mass. Hence clumper, a clot or clod. “2. A cluster56 KB (7,984 words) - 14:42, March 25, 2021
- Companion to the Flower-Garden, ed. A. J. Downing (New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1845), view on Zotero. William W. Valk, “Design for a Geometric Flower Garden,” Horticulturist27 KB (3,515 words) - 10:45, April 6, 2021
- al'ly [Fr. allée, a passage, from aller to go; Ir. alladh. Literally, a passing or going.] “1. A walk in a garden; a narrow passage. “2. A narrow passage34 KB (4,480 words) - 15:28, August 13, 2021
- admitt a prospect [of] the length of the garden thro’ a broad gravel walk, to a large hansome summer house in a grean. . . we left the garden for a wood44 KB (5,866 words) - 14:29, April 1, 2021
- variety.” Hamilton, William, 1789, in a letter to his secretary, Benjamin Hays Smith, discussing plans for The Woodlands, seat of William Hamilton, near Philadelphia49 KB (6,996 words) - 20:56, March 29, 2021
- amid tritons and sea horses, and cars. A single streak of water would be a more pleasing object.” Alcott, William A., 1838, “Embellishment and Improvement67 KB (9,305 words) - 17:36, April 8, 2021
- of a hot-house a nuisance, and prefer a stage, which may be constructed according to taste. It should be made of the best Carolina pine, leaving a passage24 KB (3,052 words) - 20:01, September 8, 2021
- journeys of 100 miles solely to go into a forest to collect there a plant or a bush. Franklinia is a tree from Georgia, with a superb flower; Gotheria procumbens50 KB (7,152 words) - 19:49, September 1, 2021
- respectable citizens [of Philadelphia] as a treat to their friends from a distance, and as one of the means to impress them with a favourable opinion of the beauties17 KB (2,359 words) - 14:22, September 21, 2021
- included a system of scaffolding in the one-and-a-half-story greenhouse to hold plants in a form resembling “the declivity of a mountain” as well as “a cistern110 KB (15,513 words) - 20:48, August 30, 2021
- intends making a carriage road from the landing in a direction nearly parallel with the course of the stream, to a distance of about a quarter of a mile, where116 KB (17,032 words) - 18:25, August 23, 2021
