The Villa Gardener: Comprising the Choice of a Suburban Villa Residence; the Laying Out, Planting, and Culture of the Garden and Grounds : and the Management of the Villa Farm, Including the Dairy and Poultry-yard ...W. S. Orr & Company, 1850 - 516 Seiten |
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Seite 141 - In taking two stations having the same value, the one to the north and the other to the south of...
Seite 50 - ... the lower part of the house from the road, by a wall or open fence, so that the relative levels of the house and road might not be observed ; then to scoop out the ground between the house, and the door opening to the road ; and to arrange the walk so that the entrance-door to the house could not be seen till the person walking on it had arrived at the lowest part of the intervening walk, from which he might ascend to the house. A great deal more might be said on this subject; but to one class...
Seite 320 - is worked with grey limestone, quartz, and spar. It has no cells for plants : the spaces are filled up with broken fragments of white marble, to look like snow ; and the spar is intended for the glacier. On the small scale of our engravings, and without the aid of colour, it is altogether impossible to give an adequate idea of the...
Seite 3 - One of the greatest of all the sources of enjoyment resulting from the possession of a garden is, the endless variety which it produces, either by the perpetual progress of vegetation which is going forward in it to maturity, dormancy, or decay, or by the almost innumerable kinds of plants which may be raised in even the smallest garden. Even the same trees, grown in the same garden, are undergoing perpetual changes throughout the year...
Seite 510 - Garden, Madrid, who gave the genus the name of Dahlia, in honour of the Swedish professor Dahl. Cavanilles sent a plant of it the same year to the Marchioness of Bute, who was very fond of flowers, and who kept it in the greenhouse. From this species nearly all the varieties known in the gardens have been raised ; as it seeds freely, and varies very much when raised from seed. In 1802, a second species (I), cocclnea) was introduced from France, in which country it had been raised from Mexican seeds.
Seite 317 - ... garden is worthy of notice ; not only does the material harmonise with the margins of the beds, and the rocky bank, better than gravel would have done, but, being on a steep slope, it is not liable to be washed away, as that material would have been, by every shower of rniu.
Seite 224 - This is a full and complete manual of instruction upon the subject of which it treats. Being intended for those who have little or no previous knowledge of gardening, it presents, in a very precise and detailed manner, all that is necessary to be known upon it, and cannot fail to awaken a more general taste for these healthful and pleasant pursuits among the ladies of our country.
Seite 396 - The same letters refer to the ceiling of the portico. The following is the method in which the work is performed. The first thing necessary, before commencing operations, is to have an even close-boarded surface to work upon ; and upon this ground draw whatever figures, forms, or devices you intend to represent.
Seite 1 - ... purpose ; the carrying of a weight from one point to another and back again ; or the taking of a walk without any object in view, but the negative one of preserving health. Thus, it is not only a condition of our nature, that, in order to secure health and cheerfulness, we must labour ; but we must also labour in such a way as to produce something useful or agreeable. Now, of the different kinds of useful things produced by labour, those things, surely, which are living beings, and which grow...
Seite 1 - ... result, and to be successful in attaining it, are, as cause and effect, attended by a certain degree of satisfaction to the mind, however simple or rude the labour may be, and however unimportant the result obtained. To be convinced of this, we have only to imagine ourselves employed in any labour...