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Avenue
(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 patée

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Walk
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, describing

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Hothouse
[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, Benjamin

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Eminence
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 dwelling

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Prospect
[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 colleges

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Lemon Hill
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 the

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Henry Pratt
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 family

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Modern style/Natural style
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 specimen

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Picturesque
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 specimen

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Gardenesque
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 specimen

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Greenhouse
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 at

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Gate/Gateway
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, palace

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View/Vista
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 methods

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Seat
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 western

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Pond
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. In

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Bower
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 roof

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Wall
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 circulation

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Plot/Plat
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 plantation

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Bridge
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 or

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Terrace/Slope
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 prospect

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