The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 125
tree, which he has shown mixed with cypresses, and a few lowshrubs and flowers forming a mass simple but grand, andquite in unison with the architectural character of the scene.The accompanying sketch (fg. 16.) is from an etching of thedestruction of Babylon, and represents part of the… … The finest I have seen are at Blenheim; but even therethey are not much contrasted with the architecture, but arespread generally throughout the whole of the gardens ; andthey appeared to me in a great measure lost from being somixed up with other trees and shrubs; however, they serve tomaintain…
