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... beauty . The site should be open , and , if natural shelter is not to be obtained , re- course must be had to planting . There are few places , indeed , except in some marine residences , in which this expedient is not of considerable ...
... beauty . The site should be open , and , if natural shelter is not to be obtained , re- course must be had to planting . There are few places , indeed , except in some marine residences , in which this expedient is not of considerable ...
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... beauty ; in the latter case , he will make it his duty , so far as it is in his power , to diminish or relieve the actual inferiority which unhappily exists . Arrangement of the Interior of the House . - It may be supposed that the ...
... beauty ; in the latter case , he will make it his duty , so far as it is in his power , to diminish or relieve the actual inferiority which unhappily exists . Arrangement of the Interior of the House . - It may be supposed that the ...
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... beauty is the object aimed at , the drawing - room front should look towards the south , whatever may be the scenery in that quarter , and the entrance should be on any of the other sides which may be most sheltered or most convenient ...
... beauty is the object aimed at , the drawing - room front should look towards the south , whatever may be the scenery in that quarter , and the entrance should be on any of the other sides which may be most sheltered or most convenient ...
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... beauty of an approach . Into this species of work , however , the furor of railway - making has introduced some of its most violent operations , and has added very little to approaches , as good roads , while it has taken much from ...
... beauty of an approach . Into this species of work , however , the furor of railway - making has introduced some of its most violent operations , and has added very little to approaches , as good roads , while it has taken much from ...
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... beauty of fine plants , but very much improves the appearance of those which scarcely deserve that name . Site of the Flower - Garden . - Convenience of access requires that the flower - garden should be at no great dis- tance from the ...
... beauty of fine plants , but very much improves the appearance of those which scarcely deserve that name . Site of the Flower - Garden . - Convenience of access requires that the flower - garden should be at no great dis- tance from the ...
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afford ALLIANCE approach arboretum arrangement artificial artist beauty Boilers botanic gardens branches BRANNT breadth broad cedar character CISTALES climate clumps colour common yew considerable Construction country residence Cunninghamia D. K. CLARK deciduous decoration designer DICTYOGENS distance drawing-room dressed grounds edition effect Engineer engravings evergreen exhibit extent feet fence Fitzroya flower-garden flowers foliage genera glaucous grass green groups growth hardy Horticultural Illustrated JOSHUA ROSE kitchen garden lake Landscape Gardening larch lawns light Lindl locality Loud mansion-house Manufacture masses MENISPERMALES natural objects occupied ornamental outline parks and pleasure-grounds parterre perhaps pines Pinetum plantations plants position Practical Treatise principal proper public park racter remarks require rhododendrons road scenery seldom shade shelter single trees slopes soil space species style suitable surface taste Taxodium terraces tion trees and shrubs Turnham Green varied variety vegetable villa walks walls whole woods
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