Art Out-of-doors: Hints on Good Taste in GardeningCharles Scribner's Sons, 1893 - 399 páginas |
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Página 122 - May, or beginning of June, because, before that time, my greenhouse will not be ready to receive us, and it is the only pleasant room belonging to us. When the plants .go out, we go in. I line it with mats, and spread the floor with mats : and there you shall sit, with a bed of mignonette at your side, and a hedge of honeysuckles, roses, and jasmine; and I will make you a bouquet of myrtle every day.
Página 328 - KINGS vi. 17. distinction commonly made between the natural and the supernatural, though useful and convenient for certain purposes, becomes misleading and false if understood to mean that a hard and fast line can be drawn between the two, or that the one necessarily excludes the other.
Página 324 - ... noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature. The boat at St.
Página 372 - He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat, committeth himself to prison. Neither do I reckon it an ill seat only where the air is unwholesome ; but likewise where the air is unequal; as you shall see many fine seats set upon a...
Página 27 - If now we ask when and where we need the fine art of landscape gardening, must not the answer be, whenever and wherever we touch the surface of the ground and the plants it bears with the wish to produce an organized result that shall please the eye?
Página 110 - ... artist has given due respect and reverence to nature, that is not all that remains for him to do. It is only a right beginning. He has not the artificial features — walks, drives, fences, etc., to blend and harmonize in his landscape. The walks and drives should be as few as convenience will permit ; "they should neither be so straight as to lack beauty, nor so meandering as to lack good sense.
Página 230 - Our blessed Saviour," says Evelyn, " chose the garden sometimes for his oratory — and dying, for the place of his sepulchre; and we do avouch, for many weighty causes, that there are no places more fit to bury our dead in than...
Página 10 - The mind of man comprehends her effort, and though the skill of man cannot compete with her in the production of particulars, man is able by art to anticipate her desires, and to exhibit an image of what she was intending. As Tennyson wrote in The Two Voices : — " That type of perfect in his mind Can he in Nature nowhere find." " To disengage the elements of beauty," says Sainte-Beuve; "To escape from the mere frightful reality,
Página 27 - ... landscape' effects. It is needed wherever we do more than grow plants for the money we may save or gain by them. It does not matter whether we have in mind a great park or a small city square, a large estate or a modest dooryard, we must go about our work in an artistic spirit if we want a good result. Two trees and six shrubs, a...