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  • Thickets of tall trees dotted the hill slopes and patched the meadows as if some landscape-gardener had been at work on them.

    Prester John 2005

  • A wide gap through miles of woods had opened this distant view, and showed more, perhaps, than all the labors of the architect and the landscape-gardener the large style of the early

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 Various

  • Mr. Nesfield, the great landscape-gardener, considers that Longleat, the marquis of Bath's, near Warminster, has greater natural advantages than any park in

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various

  • Britain, once renowned for its extensive woods, now exhibits only smaller assemblages, chiefly of an artificial character, which are more interesting to the landscape-gardener than to the lover of Nature's primitive charms.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various

  • Her principal seat was at Sandleford in Berkshire, where she spent large sums in improvements under the celebrated landscape-gardener

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 Various

  • In this case the house stood so near the road that there was no privacy, so the ingenious architect-decorator became landscape-gardener and by making a high but ornamental fence and numerous arbours, carried the eye to the green trees beyond and back to the refreshing tangle of shrubs and flowers in the immediate foreground, until the illusion of being secluded was so complete that the nearby road was forgotten.

    The Art of Interior Decoration Grace Wood

  • Bridgman was the first practical landscape-gardener who ventured to ignore old rules; and he was followed closely by William Kent, a broken-down and unsuccessful landscape-painter, who came into such vogue as a man of taste, that he was employed to fashion the furniture of scores of country-villas; and

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various

  • Now I'm something between a forester, a landscape-gardener, and a roadman.

    Anthony Lyveden Dornford Yates 1922

  • When Nature sets out to make a park her style has a charming abandon that no landscape-gardener can ever hope to capture.

    The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] Hulbert Footner 1911

  • Below us was a wide parterre whose flower-beds, laid out by a celebrated landscape-gardener in the days of the Stuarts, were filled with vegetables.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

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