The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs, Band 22Hovey and Company, 1856 |
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Seite 86 - I am therefore persuaded, that the two opposite qualities of roughness, and of sudden variation, joined to that of irregularity, are the most efficient causes of the picturesque.
Seite 305 - ... colour and size. Nor is it the least curious to notice that these slender and fragile structures, apparently not more substantial than the gossamer and flexible as a feather, still possess a tenacity and wiriness which allow the delicate leaf to be raised by the hand to the surface of the water without injury.
Seite 207 - The bridal-day — the festival — the tomb — Thou hast thy part in each, thou stateliest flower ! Therefore with thy soft breath come floating by A thousand images of love or grief, Dreams, fill'd with tokens of mortality, Deep thoughts of all things beautiful and brief.
Seite 419 - Great Nature scorns control : she will not bear One beauty foreign to the spot or soil She gives thee to adorn : 'tis thine alone To mend, not change her features. . Does her hand Stretch forth a level lawn ? Ah, hope not thou To lift the mountain there. Do mountains frown •Around ? Ah, wish not there the level lawn.
Seite 347 - OR, THE KITCHEN AND FRUIT GARDEN, with the best methods for their Cultivation ; together with hints upon Landscape and Flower Gardening; containing modes of culture and descriptions of the species and varieties of the Culinary Vegetables, Fruit Trees...
Seite 375 - Down went many a trophy of old magnificence, court-yard, ornamented enclosure, foss, avenue, barbican, and every external muniment of battled wall and flanking tower, out of the midst of which the ancient dome rising high above all its characteristic accompaniments, and seemingly girt round by its appropriate defences, which again circled each other in their different gradations, looked, as it should, the queen and mistress of the surrounding country. It was thus that the huge old tower of...
Seite 326 - As gardens, however, are both a costly and permanent subject, and are of consequence less liable to the influence of fashion, this taste would not easily be altered : and the principal improvements which they would receive, would consist rather in the greater employment of uniformity and expense, than in the introduction of any new design. The whole history of antiquity, accordingly, contains not, I believe, a single instance where this character was deviated from, in a spot considered solely as...
Seite 187 - ... of trees, and still more formal patches of shrubs may be called enrichment. Why this art has been called landscape gardening, perhaps he, who gave it the title, may explain. I can see no reason unless it be the efficacy which it has shown in destroying landscapes, in which, indeed, it seems to be infallible ; not one complete painter's composition being, I believe, to be found in any of the numerous, and many of them beautiful and picturesque spots, which it has visited in different parts of...
Seite 326 - ... to have been imagined, that a garden was capable of any other Beauty than what might arise from Utility, and from the display of Art and Design. It deserves also further to be remarked, that the additional ornaments of gardening have in every country partaken of the same character, and have been directed to the purpose of increasing the appearance and the Beauty of Art and of Design.
Seite 482 - Its leaf is much tenderer than that of the oak, and sooner receives impression from the winds and frost. Instead of contributing its tint, therefore, in the wane of the year, among the manycoloured offspring of the woods, it shrinks from the blast, drops its leaf, and in each scene where it predominates leaves wide blanks of desolated boughs amidst foliage yet fresh and verdant.