Excerpt from The Book of Garden Furniture Beautiful flowers, well-kept lawns and noble trees these do not make good gardens, and this fact must be my excuse for writing these pages. In striving after artistic effects, mere cultural skill will avail us nothing, if we do not possess that faculty for grouping and arrange ment which is inseparable from the skilled gardener. Further, we must be prepared to expend a considerable amount of thought and care on those objects of garden furniture, which have come to be regarded ...
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Excerpt from The Book of Garden Furniture Beautiful flowers, well-kept lawns and noble trees these do not make good gardens, and this fact must be my excuse for writing these pages. In striving after artistic effects, mere cultural skill will avail us nothing, if we do not possess that faculty for grouping and arrange ment which is inseparable from the skilled gardener. Further, we must be prepared to expend a considerable amount of thought and care on those objects of garden furniture, which have come to be regarded either as necessities or as desirable adjuncts to the well-kept pleasure grounds. It is more than possible to completely Spoil an otherwise good efiect by the introduction of unsuitable or ugly summer-houses, seats, sundials, and statuary; and I shall endeavour briefly to indicate the styles suited to various gardens, the manufacture of those which can be made without skilled assistance, and the positions which each may occupy to the best advantage. In early times, buildings and decorations in stone and wood were much more freely employed in gardens than they are to-day, and vast sums were spent in ancient Rome and Greece on these costly objects. Varro's garden at Casinum contained, among other costly features, bridges, a large aviary, and Open-air temples. During the Augustan age, statues and fountains appear to have been introduced; and among the wonders of Pliny's famous Tusculan gardens were summer-house's in dazzling marble, B 2 the book OF garden furniture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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