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How to lay out a garden : intended as a general guide in choosing, forming, or improving an estate, (from a quarter of an acre to a hundred acres in extent) with reference to both design and execution (1860)

Kemp, Edward, 1817-1891 · New York : Wiley · leaf 255

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ieved by contrast with vegetable forms of an opposite 10 218 PARTICULAR OBJECTS. character. Without questioning the soundness of the rule,which appears quite unexceptionable, it may be doubtedwhether, in the case of Grecian and Italian structures, atleast, the appropriateness of the Fir and Cypress… … Fig. 135. not at all suited for either of the forms of Gothic. And so,perhaps, the old ancestral Elms and Oaks, in which many anEnglish Gothic house is often embosomed, (fig. 135,) may, bythe commonness and antiquity of the usage, have given a pro-priety to the employment of that kind of tree in…

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