Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working AmateurLongmans, Green, 1904 - 286 páginas |
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... look happy and at home , and make no parade of conscious effort . I try for beauty and harmony everywhere , and especially for harmony of colour . A garden so treated gives the delightful feeling of repose , and refreshment , and purest ...
... look happy and at home , and make no parade of conscious effort . I try for beauty and harmony everywhere , and especially for harmony of colour . A garden so treated gives the delightful feeling of repose , and refreshment , and purest ...
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... look of perfect health and vigour . Sombrely cheerful , if one may use such a mixture of terms ; sombre by reason of the extreme depth of tone , and yet cheerful from the look of glad life , and from the assurance of warm shelter and ...
... look of perfect health and vigour . Sombrely cheerful , if one may use such a mixture of terms ; sombre by reason of the extreme depth of tone , and yet cheerful from the look of glad life , and from the assurance of warm shelter and ...
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... look at some fine old nut alley , with the tops arching and meeting overhead , as I hope mine will do in a few years ... looks wofully naked , and for the time its pictorial value is certainly lessened ; but it has to be done , and when ...
... look at some fine old nut alley , with the tops arching and meeting overhead , as I hope mine will do in a few years ... looks wofully naked , and for the time its pictorial value is certainly lessened ; but it has to be done , and when ...
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... look out for , to pull off and grow into young trees . A firm grasp and a sharp tug brings them up with a fine supply of good fibrous root . After two years in the nursery they are just right to plant out . The trees in the nut - walk ...
... look out for , to pull off and grow into young trees . A firm grasp and a sharp tug brings them up with a fine supply of good fibrous root . After two years in the nursery they are just right to plant out . The trees in the nut - walk ...
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... look well if cleverly arranged with plenty of good foliage ; and even when a hard and long frost spoils the few 1 The planting of large vineyards had destroyed the botanical interest of what had been beautiful flowery wastes . blooms ...
... look well if cleverly arranged with plenty of good foliage ; and even when a hard and long frost spoils the few 1 The planting of large vineyards had destroyed the botanical interest of what had been beautiful flowery wastes . blooms ...
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Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working ... Gertrude Jekyll Visualização integral - 1914 |
Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working ... Gertrude Jekyll Visualização integral - 1901 |
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