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 507
axifrages,&c), with a few trees and shrubs of showyflowering kinds. If these front gardens wereeither wholly in turf, excepting always thewalk from the gate to the door of the house,or wholly paved, with a very narrow marginal dug border, andthe vase or vases forming a point or a line in the… … 492 Vases as Receptacles 86 EaBJCjffiagL^ % C— i JT~ ^ gravel paths; in which beds, for the reasonsbefore given, fine plants never thrive, andwhich are exceedingly difficult to keep orderlyand neat, though they never look well unlessthey are so. By the plan of having vasesinstead of beds, these…
