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Title: Hints on ornamental gardening : consisting of a series of designs for garden buildings, useful and decorative gates, fences, railroads, &c., accompanied by observations on the principles and theory of rural improvement, interspersed with occasional remarks on rural architecture.
Year: 1823 (1820s)
Authors: Papworth, John Buonarotti, 1775-1847
Subjects: Landscape architecture Architecture, Domestic
Publisher: London : R. Ackermann
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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r tents ofvarious shapes, or the whole erection might be convenientlyremoved from place to place, if sockets were properly placedat chosen situations to receive them; for the parts being con-nected by screws and nuts, and the awning canvas suspendedby hooks and eyes, it would need but half an hours employ-ment to take it down and replace it where required. In summer,such a temporary retreat is a gratifying appendage to thehouse, and affords variety and healthfulness to the amuse-ments of the day. THE LAWN. By the lawn is meant that portion of grass-plat which lies be-tween the house and the pasture, and which is constantly keptmown, forming a verdant carpet on which the building stands,and amongst the improvements that have resulted from themodem practice of gardening it merits particular notice, for insmall dwellings it is a substitute for the broad gravel or stoneterraces that were formerly adopted, it now receives the inha-lants from the windows of the apartments; and, in fact, the
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se S ^ ^ ^ > 1 ^ < ^ THE LAWN. 95 lawn has become a favorite auxiliary to every apartment of theground-floor. The lawn is usually separated from the pasture by a lightiron-fence—from parks by a ha! ha! or sunk fence and terrace,as before described; its embellishments are beds of choice shrubsand flowers, formed upon it of various shapes, and by singleever-green trees or shrubs growing from the grass, and whichshould be distributed upon the same principles as are describedin the subject upon planting in general:—if these are judiciallydisposed they will harmonize the landscape with the building,and dismiss the nakedness that too commonly prevails in thelawns of villas in general. From the interior this decorativeplanting will carry forward the richness and furnished effect ofthe apartments, and obviate that abrupt and offensive differencethat seems otherwise to prevail between them and the externalscenery. Small ornamental seats of China or porcelain—rustic or fan-ciful cha

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