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" I ihink it is about forty yards long. It is a great curiosity." In some of the villages near Northampton, are some elder trees of singularly unusual size. "
The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement - Page 470
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The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement, Volume 1

Agriculture - 1828 - 510 pages
...than twelve feet broad, and about fifteen feet high. I dare say it is several centuries old. I think it is about forty yards long. It is a great curiosity....then wrote : " Neither is there a noble or pleasant scat in England, but hath its gardens for pleasure and delight. So that we may, without vanity, conclude,...
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Gleanings on Gardens: Chiefly Respecting Those of the Ancient Style in England

Samuel Felton - Gardens - 1897 - 148 pages
...than twelve feet broad, and about fifteen feet high. I daresay it is several centuries old. I think it is about forty yards long. It is a great curiosity." In some of the villages near Northampton, are Patrick Keith must have felt when composing the Introduction to his System of Physiological Botany...
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Gleanings on Gardens: Chiefly Respecting Those of the Ancient Style in England

Samuel Felton - Gardens - 1897 - 148 pages
...than twelve feet broad, and about fifteen feet high. I daresay it is several centuries old. I think it is about forty yards long. It is a great curiosity." In some of the villages near Northampton, are Patrick Keith must have felt when composing the Introduction to his System of Physiological Bota/ny...
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English Pleasure Gardens

Rose Standish Nichols - Gardens - 1902 - 512 pages
...seventeenth-century gardens became more numerous. Worlidge, writing about the year 1675, says: — " Neither is there a noble or pleasant seat in- England but hath its gardens for pleasure and delight, scarce an ingenious citizen that by his confinement to a shop being denied the privilege of a real...
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The Old-world Pleasaunce: An Anthology

Eleanour Sinclair Rohde - Anthologies - 1925 - 346 pages
...with their beauteous Gardens before them which wanting they would seem without Lustre or Grandeur. Neither is there a Noble or pleasant Seat in England but hath its Gardens for pleasure and delight ; scarce an Ingenious Citizen that by his confinement to a Shop, being denied the priviledge of having...
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BOERHAAVEìS ORATIONS

Herman Boerhaave - History of Medicine, 18th Cent - 1983 - 394 pages
...part of Yugoslavia. 65 Cf. the description given by John Worley in his Systema horti-culturae(1677): 'Neither is there a noble or pleasant seat in England but hath its gardens for pleasure and delight; scarce an ingenious citizen that by his confinement to a shop, being denied the priviledge of having...
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Nature and Social Theory

Adrian Franklin - Social Science - 2002 - 292 pages
...1983:228). This was clear from Worlidge's Systema Horti-culturae of 1677: 'Neither is there a nobler or pleasant Seat in England but hath its gardens for pleasure and delight; scarce an ingenious citizen that by his confinement to his shop, being denied the privilege of a real...
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