A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening: Adapted to North America ...Orange Judd, 1859 - 576 pages |
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Page 217 - Come, my Corinna, come; and, coming, mark How each field turns a street, each street a park Made green and trimmed with trees; see how Devotion gives each house a bough Or branch: each porch, each door, ere this, An ark, a tabernacle is, Made up of white-thorn, neatly interwove; As if here were those cooler shades of love.
Page 142 - An original genius, a citizen of nature. There is no instance before him of a man who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with the free disorder natural to each species.
Page 67 - Or helps th' ambitious Hill the heav'ns to scale, Or scoops in circling theatres the Vale, Calls in the Country, catches opening glades, Joins willing woods, and varies shades from shades, Now breaks, or now directs, th' intending Lines; Paints as you plant, and, as you work, designs.
Page 113 - ... distances Spread their peculiar coloring, vivid green, Warm brown, and black opake the foreground bears Conspicuous : sober olive coldly marks The second distance ; thence the third declines In softer blue, or lessening still, is lost In fainted purple. When thy taste is...
Page 32 - Sargent, Esq., and is a bijou full of interest for the lover of rural beauty; abounding in rare trees, shrubs and plants, as well as vases, and objects of rural embellishment of all kinds. Kenwood, formerly the residence of J. Rathbone, Esq., is one mile south of Albany. Ten years ago this spot was a wild and densely wooded hill, almost inaccessible. With great taste and industry Mr. Rathbone has converted it into a country residence of much picturesque beauty, erected in the Tudor style, one of...
Page 158 - DOST thou not love, in the season of spring, To twine thee a flowery wreath, And to see the beautiful birch-tree fling Its shade on the grass beneath ? Its glossy leaf, and its silvery stem ; Oh dost thou not love to look on them...
Page 248 - Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, the White Pine abounds in various situations, adapting itself to every variety of soil, from dry, gravelly upland, to swamps constantly wet. Michaux measured two trunks near the river Kennebec, one of which was 154 feet long, and 54- inches in diameter; the other 144 .feet long, and 44 inches in diameter, at three feet from the ground. Dr. Dwight also mentions a specimen on the Kattskill 249 feet long, and several on the Unadilla 200 feet long, and three in diameter.*...
Page 131 - The leaves are broad, rough, pointed, and the branches extend more horizontally, drooping at the extremities. The bark on the branches is comparatively smooth. It is a grand tree, " the head is so finely massed and yet so well broken as to render it one of the noblest of park trees ; and when it grows wild amid the rocky scenery of its native Scotland, there is no tree which assumes so great or so pleasing a variety of character."* In general appearance, the Scotch elm considerably resembles our...
Page 175 - Appenines, these nuts form a large portion of the food which sustains the peasantry, where grain is but little cultivated, and potatoes almost unknown. There a sweet and highly nutritious flour is prepared from them, which makes a delicious bread. Large quantities of the fruit are therefore annually collected in those countries, and dried and stored away for the winter's consumption. Old Evelyn says, "the bread of the flour is exceedingly nutritive ; it is a robust food, and makes women well complexioned,...
Page 274 - Ivy are great favorites with bees, from their honied sweetness ; they open in autumn, and the berries ripen in the spring. When planted at the root of a tree, it will often, if the head is not too thickly clad with branches, ascend to the very topmost limbs ; and its dark green foliage, wreathing itself about the old and furrowed trunk, and hanging in careless drapery from the lower branches, adds greatly to the elegance of even the most admirable tree. Spenser describes the appearance of the Ivy...