The parks and gardens of Paris, considered in relation to the wants of other cities and of the public and private gardens; being notes on a study of Paris gardens (1878)
Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935 · London, Macmillan · leaf 261
natural oltjects, there is to be con-sidered the great amount of not unskilled labour necessary tocarry out this absurd practice. As if to contrast with all these decr(q»it avenues and monstrousachievements of the l)ill-hook, there is a grand avenue of oldand very tall Lombardy Poplars near the… … CiiAi. XIV.] TIIK GARDENS OF VERSAHJ.KS. 221 desirable it is, in order to concentrate the effect and to obtaincharacter, that at certain places in the landscape and certainstreets in the town, one particular tree should predominate.How pleasantly our imagination is stirred by the mention of…
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