The Flower Garden, Its Arrangement, Cultivation and General Management, Abridged and Corrected from the Larger Work [By J. Rennie] by G. Glenny (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: by parapet walls, on the coping of which vases of different forms are occasionally placed, either as ornaments, or for the purpose of containing plants. Where the ground slopes much, and commands a supply of water from above, jets cCcau and fountains are introduced with good effect. If judiciously managed, this style is excellently adapted for the display of climbing plants, which are to be trained on the terrace walls, while others are planted at the base. In the papal gardens of the Belvedere, at the back of the Palace of the Vatican, we have an instance of the beautiful effect which may be produced by the most simple means, directed by good taste. The geometrical figures are here produced by deep box-edgings, to which variety is given by embankment. The French Style.?The French partially adopt the Italian style close to their chateaux and houses; and, beyond the terraces, lay out parterres, sometimes in very complicated figures. " There is nothing," says M. Chomel, " more ingenious belonging to a garden than the several ways of marking different figures in a work of this nature, especially where the design happens to be well contrived and executed. As for plain parterres, there are few gardeners so ignorant but they know how to mark them out; and there is, indeed, so great a variety of other parterres, which are embroidered, or partly cut-work, with borders, grass, and the like, that there would be no end of enumerating them, so luxuriant have people's fancies been in things of this kind. It may be said, in general, that the breadth of parterres ought to be equal, or even larger, than the outside of the house; and as to length, it ought to be so contrived that all the compartments may be seen from the house." It is necessary, however, to remark, that though this was and ...