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... employ a familiar but undignified comparison . At the same time , the garden front was such that it required a thick wall reared up from a considerable depth below to form a walk a few yards wide in front of a pile of buildings which ...
... employ a familiar but undignified comparison . At the same time , the garden front was such that it required a thick wall reared up from a considerable depth below to form a walk a few yards wide in front of a pile of buildings which ...
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... employed . The internal frame - work of the house should be simple , but elegant . Elaborate decoration in this department has a tendency to detract from the effect of the plants . Fine mouldings and carvings harbour insects , collect ...
... employed . The internal frame - work of the house should be simple , but elegant . Elaborate decoration in this department has a tendency to detract from the effect of the plants . Fine mouldings and carvings harbour insects , collect ...
Page 16
... employing a hot - water circula- tion for raising and regulating the temperature , -viz . , that the furnace by which the heat is supplied does not necessarily require to be close to the house , though un- doubtedly it is the more ...
... employing a hot - water circula- tion for raising and regulating the temperature , -viz . , that the furnace by which the heat is supplied does not necessarily require to be close to the house , though un- doubtedly it is the more ...
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... employed for the frame - work of such houses , as they combine strength and lightness in a higher degree than any other materials . Stone pilasters of slender propor- tions may be introduced , to give a somewhat architec- tural air to ...
... employed for the frame - work of such houses , as they combine strength and lightness in a higher degree than any other materials . Stone pilasters of slender propor- tions may be introduced , to give a somewhat architec- tural air to ...
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... ing effect of steep inclinations . In the park , as now laid out , the straight line is seldom employed , as it cannot be introduced without a stiff and bald appear- C ance . On the other hand , an approach two LINE OF THE APPROACH . 25.
... ing effect of steep inclinations . In the park , as now laid out , the straight line is seldom employed , as it cannot be introduced without a stiff and bald appear- C ance . On the other hand , an approach two LINE OF THE APPROACH . 25.
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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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