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Victorian gardens: The art of beautifying suburban home grounds (1870)

Scott, Frank J. (Frank Jesup), 1828-1919 · [n.p.] D. Appleton & Co. · leaf 255

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or the centre ofthe central bed would be a broad shallow vase two feet in height,and four in breadth, on top, elevated on a pedestal two feethigh, which should be concealed by a dense mass of shrubbyflowering plants around it; the sides of the vase to be drapedwith pendulous plants overhanging its… … <u © f • j g e> engraving at the end of this chapter. This would require a differentstyle of planting. Supposing its base to be four feet in diameter,there would be a margin of two feet all around it for low trailingflowers. The design for a basket-vase is intended for an open lawn,and shows…

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