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Old and New London
… to walk in thirteen acres of avenues of limes and chestnut-trees in the gardens adjoining the College. This privilege … past the solid red-brick houses, screened by sheltering trees, Chelsea presents such a picture as the old Dutch … of hair of a Goa goat; belts of wampum; Indian money; the fruit of the horn-tree." The following curiosities were also …
Survey of London
… enriched with leaf ornament. Festoons of carved leaf and fruit adorn the angles. The cornice and base are moulded, and …
Survey of London
… Moor's head. The spandrels of the arch are carved with fruit and leaf, and each bears a further shield. The cornice …
Survey of London
… of the arch. The tympanum is carved with conventional fruit and foliage, and above the monument is a metal cross …
The Environs of London
… and water, wood and field, meadow and pasture, pannage and fruit, and other emoluments, as fully and freely as it was … from toll and every third tree, with a third of the fruit growing in his wood at Kyngesbyrig. We are told by Dart …
The Environs of London
… 211 was taken for that purpose, and planted with mulberry-trees; it attracted a considerable share of the public …
The Environs of London
… succeeded very well 254. Miller says, that in 1750, these trees were upwards of eleven feet in girth. Having been … well known for his ingenious method of treating decayed trees. Winchesterhouse An act of parliament having passed in … apple-trees for the purpose of supplying the King with fruit and cyder. They were to consist principally of golden …
Old and New London
… raw silk was established here, and a number of mulberry-trees were planted for the purpose, but the scheme proved … in old maps as "Lover's Walk," and was planted with trees. The "Goat in Boots" is the sign of a public-house at … named from a magistrate who lived in it. An avenue of lime-trees formerly adorned it, and rendered it an agreeable …
Old and New London
… great extent, and faced by avenues of limes and chestnut-trees. In the centre of the structure is a handsome portico … laid out in grass plats and gravel walks, and planted with trees; attached to each wing is a spacious play-ground for … were rowed in boats, and the grounds were planted with trees. The decorations of the various buildings were designed …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 59 A 12-a. allotment in Abberd mead was planted with trees between 1821 and 1843, and 9 a. in the Gores and 8 a. …