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 ExecutionJohn Wiley & Son, 1901 - 403 pagina's |
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How to Lay Out a Garden: Intended as a General Guide in Choosing, Forming ... Edward Kemp Volledige weergave - 1894 |
How to Lay Out a Garden: Intended as a General Guide in Choosing, Forming ... Edward Kemp Volledige weergave - 1901 |
How to Lay Out a Garden: Intended as a General Guide in Choosing, Forming ... Edward Kemp Volledige weergave - 1864 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina iii - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Pagina 95 - Art should be pretty obviously expressed in that part of every garden which is in the immediate vicinity of the house, and may sometimes retain its prominence throughout the whole place. In the latter case, terraces, straight lines of walks, avenues of trees or shrubs, rows of flowerbeds, and geometrical figures, with all kinds of architectural ornaments, will prevail. Considerable dignity of character may certainly thus be acquired ; and, if well sustained, the expression of high art will be a very...
Pagina 279 - Any great elevation should never be sought in small rockeries. This would be inconsistent with their breadth, and would render them too prominent and artificial. They should not be carried higher than the point at which they can be well supported and backed with a broad mass of earth and vegetation. Additional height may sometimes be given, if desired, by excavating into a hollow the base from which they spring.
Pagina 49 - They serve to make it appear peculiarly one's own, converting it into a kind of sanctum. A place that has neither of these qualities, might almost as well be public property. Those who love their garden, often want to walk, work, ruminate, read, romp, or examine the various changes and developments of Nature, in it ; and to do so unobserved. All that attaches us to a garden, and renders it a delightful and cherished object, seems dashed and marred, if it has no privacy.
Pagina 29 - ... or groups of mixed shrubs and flowers on the lawn. This is a very common failing, and one which greatly disfigures a place ; especially as, where intended only for flowers, such beds usually remain vacant and naked for several months in the year. Flower-beds, too, when introduced in any quantity on a small lawn, have an exceedingly artifLV f ance, reminding one of the character common to children 'a gardens.
Pagina 177 - Gardening and architecture, like all the fine arts, have much in common. And that department of architecture which belongs more exclusively to the garden has, especially, a great affinity with gardening in its broader principles. In fact, there is much more relation between the two than is usually admitted, or than the ordinary products of practitioners in either art would at all justify us in believing.
Pagina 28 - There are several ways in which a place may be frittered away, so as to be wholly deficient iu character and beauty. It may be too much broken up in its general arrangement ; and this is the worst variety of the fault, because least easily mended, and most conspicuous. To aim at comprising the principal features proper to the largest gardens in those of the most limited size, is surely not a worthy species of imitation, and one which can only excite ridicule, and end in disappointment. There is a...
Pagina 387 - ... the plants out of the ground as short a time as possible ; and the roots should be preserved and spread out with the utmost care.
Pagina 30 - ... particular portions, may simply be intended to change the scene suddenly, or furnish certain lines which are probably supposed to accord with' the general character of the house. Not only, however, are those formal divisions mostly inadmissible in a limited space, but all kinds of separating lines, though varied and broken in the most artful manner, must be condemned, as a rule, unless where the place is tolerably large. These remarks of course do not apply to plantations or fences between the...
Pagina 278 - No appearance of art and no approach to the regularity or smoothness proper to works of art will be at all in place here. On the contrary, the surface of the whole cannot be too irregular or too variedly indented or prominent. An additional projection must be given to some of the parts by moderate-sized bushes, or short-stemmed weeping trees. Evergreen shrubs or low trees will be particularly useful. Provision will therefore have to be made in the placing of the stones for planting a few shrubs and...