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 275
and of imitation, and indeed itforms a characteristic of the artificial ornaments of Dropmore,that they are not so much made up of costly materials, as bythe application of skill and taste, and the labour of local work-men, to articles of little intrinsic value. Fantastic roots andboughs of trees,… … materials which are metamorphosed into forms remarkablefor their singularity {Jig. 87.), or en-gaging for their allusion to shapes ofestablished beauty. For example, atripod for geraniums consists of an oldcask, which had contained Roman ce-ment; and an old Italian jar, such as issent from the…
