Observations on Modern Gardening, and Laying Out Pleasure-Grounds ... &C. [By T. Whately]. to Which Is Added, an Essay on the Different Natural Situations of Gardens
Observations on Modern Gardening, and Laying Out Pleasure-Grounds ... &C. [By T. Whately]. to Which Is Added, an Essay on the Different Natural Situations of Gardens
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1801 edition. Excerpt: ... below, which, though the stream runs in winter only, yet constantly retains the black tinge of damp, and casts a chill all around. Gravel walks are conducted across the glens, through the woods, the .groves, or the thickets, and along the sides of the lawns, concealed generally from the sight, but ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1801 edition. Excerpt: ... below, which, though the stream runs in winter only, yet constantly retains the black tinge of damp, and casts a chill all around. Gravel walks are conducted across the glens, through the woods, the .groves, or the thickets, and along the sides of the lawns, concealed generally from the sight, but always ready for the communication; and leading to the principal scenes; the frequency of these walks, the number and the style of the buildings, and the high preservation in which all the place is kept, give to the whole park the air "of a garden; there is however one spot more peculiarly adapted to that purpose, and more artificially disposed than the rest: it is a narrow vale, divided into three parts; one of them is quite filled with water, which leaves no room for a path, but thick trees on either side comedown quite to the brink; and between them the sight is conducted to the bridge with a portico upon it, which closes the view: another part of this vale is a deep gloom, over-hung with large ash, and oaks, and darkened below by a number of yews; these are scattered over very uneven ground, and open underneath; but they are encompassed by a thick covert, under which a stream falls, from a stony channel, down a rock; other rills drop into the current, which afterwards pours over a second cascade into the third division of the vale, where it forms a piece of water, and is lost under the bridge: the view from this bridge is a perfect opera scene, through all the divisions of the vale, up to the rotunda; both these buildings, and the other decorations of the spot, are of the species generally confined to a garden; the hermitage also, which has been described, and its appendages, are in a style which does not belong to a park; but through all...
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