European and Japanese gardens; papers read before the American Institute of Architects (1902)
Brown, Glenn, 1854-1932, Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926, Sturgis, R. Clipston (Richard Clipston), 1860-1951, Howard, John Galen, 1864-1931, Honda, K · Philadelphia, H. T. Coates · leaf 115
es the type which was common in both Franceand Italy. Everywhere, he says, were great divisions withavenues of high trees, fences of hazel, and hedges of hawthorne.Long, trellised arbors, opening out at intervals into shady sum-mer-houses, ideally arranged for scenes of gallantry, sur-rounded the… … European and Japanese Gardens cipal remaining- features of the rather chiUing- and over-sym-metrical decoration of the ItaHan gardens, in which everythingseemed obedient to a singfle demand, — coolness, shade,mystery. The transition from the dark ages to the Renaissance wasmarked in gardening- more…
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