Gleanings on gardens, chiefly respecting those of the ancient style in England / [Samuel Felton].

  • Felton, Samuel
Date:
1829
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Gleanings on gardens, chiefly respecting those of the ancient style in England / [Samuel Felton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Scotland; with artificial cascades, fountains, alcoves, ter- races, &c. Woodhouselee, near Roslin. A venerable and romantic house, and grounds; the latter remarkable for containing the largest silver fir-tree in the county: for a fine terrace, walk, and superb holly-hedge. Some curious ornaments in the geometric style of gardening, were obliterated when the grounds were re-modelled in 1787. Castle Glamis. A very ancient building; the grounds in the ancient style. Crathes, near Aberdeen. An excellent kitchen garden, in the old style, with magnificent holly-hedges, abundance of prolific fruit trees, and venerable exotic shrubs. The following account of some English and Scotch gar- dens is given in “ A Journey through England and Scot- land,r by Daniel Defoe, written in 1714, in 3 vols. 8vo. Cheveley. The seat of the late Lord Dover, which, for its situation, gardens, and parks, vies with any thing we have seen abroad. Euston Hall, the seat of the Duke of Grafton, and built by the late Lord Arlington, is a palace worthy his quality, and the parterre as fine as ever I saw. New Hall, near Witham, built by Henry VIII. and called for its charming situation Beau-lieu, is still worth seeing; the avenue of trees from the great road is majestic, being near an English mile long, very broad, and the trees large and regular.
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