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 247
groves, in murmuring streams, trees, shrubs, and flowers more especially. Ego laudo ruris an\ceni Rivos, et musco circumlita saxa, nemusque.* I am a small farmer; in short, attached to rural affairs, unattached to awife, and not banned with bairns ; I say to my garden, as Hero says to herlover, in… … 1500 1800 20CO ft. I hope I have now, as far as written communications will efFectit, explainedthe state of my little affairs, so that some talented designer may be enabledto set me to work upon parterres, American grounds, bowers, fountains,aviaries, walks, shrubberies, &c., in which, I trust,…