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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...Raised walks, as described above, are shown in Logan's views of Corpus Christi, Cambridge, and Balliol and Oriel at Oxford. Bowling-greens were usually surrounded by raised terraces, and in important gardens terraces or causeways were sometimes laid out across the middle of the garden to enable the parterres to be properly seen. There is a good instance of this in the Privy Garden at Hampton Court, also at Packwood, and at Ven House in Somerset. Switzer says these terraces should be raised between 2.6 and 3.6 above the garden. The terrace at Risley, in Derbyshire, is at some distance from the house, and runs along one side of the garden and beyond it. The terrace is separated from the garden by a long narrow piece of water, which was probably dug out to form the terrace. The terrace rises some 9 feet above this water, with a retaining wall of masonry and a heavy stone balustrade above it. It is reached from the garden by a flight of seven steps rising over the bridge, with a rather elaborate stone gateway. The terrace is 289 paces long, and is in two levels. That next the balustrade is 14 feet wide and gravelled. Above this is a grass walk, 25 feet wide, with box-hedges, and a haha on the side to the park. Part of the balustrade has been removed, and now encloses the playground of the Grammar School. The terraces hitherto described are such as might be made in ground with a slight fall. Hanging gardens are a form of terrace, but it is best to distinguish the two. The terrace is specifically a walk raised above the adjacent ground, with a certain proportion between the length and width, whereas a hanging garden is in the nature of a raised platform, which may be as broad as it is long, or any other width and any height.1 These hanging gardens were going out ...
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Book Description
Illustrative of changes in the relationship between architecture and garden design, and the influence of the burgeoning Arts and Crafts movement, this 1892 second edition champions a classical, structured garden in harmony with the design of a house, thus challenging the contemporary movement towards 'wild gardens'.
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1236176499
- ISBN 13 9781236176493
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages46
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