On Planting and Rural Ornament: A Practical Treatise, Volum 1W. Bulmer, 1803 - 454 sider |
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Side 26
... quicksets . If the soil be well prepared , and the plants properly pruned , the chief art , in putting them in , lies in not cramping the fibres of the roots ; but , on the contrary , in letting them lie free and easy , among the mold ...
... quicksets . If the soil be well prepared , and the plants properly pruned , the chief art , in putting them in , lies in not cramping the fibres of the roots ; but , on the contrary , in letting them lie free and easy , among the mold ...
Side 66
... quicksets it contains , washed down , by beating rains , for rods together . Nevertheless , if the plants escape this accident , it is astonishing to see the progress they will sometimes make , for a few first years after planting . But ...
... quicksets it contains , washed down , by beating rains , for rods together . Nevertheless , if the plants escape this accident , it is astonishing to see the progress they will sometimes make , for a few first years after planting . But ...
Side 68
... quicksets in . If it be put in , towards the top of the bank , as is usually done , the evil consequences abovemen- tioned follow : if , on the contrary , it be laid in , near the bottom , the superincumbent pressure of the bank , and ...
... quicksets in . If it be put in , towards the top of the bank , as is usually done , the evil consequences abovemen- tioned follow : if , on the contrary , it be laid in , near the bottom , the superincumbent pressure of the bank , and ...
Side 69
... quicksets are planted ; for the obvious purpose of giving the young plants a sufficient supply of moisture , air , and pasturage , until their roots have had time to extend themselves to the adjoining inclosures . THIS method of raising ...
... quicksets are planted ; for the obvious purpose of giving the young plants a sufficient supply of moisture , air , and pasturage , until their roots have had time to extend themselves to the adjoining inclosures . THIS method of raising ...
Side 70
... quicksets have been planted , being now grown up ; having , it is probable , never been scoured out since they were made . Indeed the assistance of a ditch is not wanted ; no temporary fence whatever being requisite to be made , when ...
... quicksets have been planted , being now grown up ; having , it is probable , never been scoured out since they were made . Indeed the assistance of a ditch is not wanted ; no temporary fence whatever being requisite to be made , when ...
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Side 213 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Side 212 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran Nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierced shade Imbrown'd the noontide bowers. Thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view...
Side 217 - It lies on the side of a hill (upon which the house stands), but not very steep. The length of the house, where the best rooms and of most use or pleasure are, lies upon the breadth of the garden; the great parlour...
Side 212 - Upon the rapid current, which, through veins Of porous earth with kindly thirst up-drawn, Rose a fresh fountain, and with many a rill Water'd the garden ; thence united fell Down the steep glade, and met the nether flood, Which from his darksome passage now appears ; And now, divided into four main streams, Runs diverse, wandering many a famous realm And country, whereof here needs no account...
Side 219 - ... shall yet, upon the whole, be very agreeable. Something of this I have seen in some places, but heard more of it from others who have lived much among the Chineses ; a people, whose way of thinking seems to lie as wide of ours in Europe, as their country does.
Side 207 - The tricks of waterworks to wet the unwary, not to refresh the panting spectator, and parterres embroidered in patterns like a petticoat, were but the childish endeavours of fashion and novelty to reconcile greatness to what it had surfeited on. To crown these impotent displays of false taste, the...
Side 227 - At that moment appeared Kent, painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enough to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to strike out a great system from the twilight of imperfect essays.
Side 231 - I do not know whether the disposition of the garden at Rousham, laid out for General Dormer, and in my opinion the most engaging of all Kent's works, was not planned on the model of Mr. POPE'S, at least in the opening and retiring
Side 249 - The bosom of the mountains spreading here into a broad basin, discovers in the midst Grasmere Water ; its margin is hollowed into small bays, with bold eminences, some of rock, some of soft turf, that half conceal and vary the figure of the little lake they command...
Side 220 - European gardens are formally uniform and varied; but with regard to nature it seems as much avoided as in the squares and oblongs and straight lines of our ancestors.