landscape-gardening

Completely outwitted, and in despair at her first failure, Ethel retired from the Force, and took up landscape-gardening.

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Isabel asked, looking about her through the fading light, in which the limited landscape-gardening of the square took on a large and effective appearance.

The Portrait of a Lady 2003

The drainage of highways and walks, was noted as a topic kindred to our subject, although belonging more properly perhaps, to the drainage of towns and to landscape-gardening, than to farm drainage.

Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French

He gave the best proof of his practical tact, in the conduct of his estate of Blair-Drummond, -- uniting there all the graces of the best landscape-gardening with profitable returns.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 Various

Only you must leave a gap to the westward, through which the river -- also anonymous for the present distress -- breaks its way, and which gives him half an hour's more sunshine than he would otherwise be entitled to, and slope the fields down to its margin near a mile off, with their native timber thinned so skilfully as to have the effect of the best landscape-gardening.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various

[3] Mimic rocks and stones may be wrought into sublime effect; and have often been introduced into landscape-gardening with striking success.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 352, January 17, 1829 Various

Whately alludes to the analogy between landscape-painting and landscape-gardening: the true artists in either pursuit aim at the production of rich pictorial effects, but their means are different.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 Various

When I read such a book as this of Whately's, -- so informed and leavened as it is by an elegant taste, -- I am most painfully impressed by the shortcomings of very much which is called good landscape-gardening with us.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 Various

But I enroll him in my wet-day service simply as the author of the most appreciative and most tasteful treatise upon landscape-gardening which has ever been written, -- not excepting either Price or Repton.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 Various

Botany and landscape-gardening were his chief amusements, while with the great literature of the day he was as familiar as with the great men who made it.

The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees Mary Caroline Crawford