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A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… with noble plantations, and interspersed with clumps of trees tastefully arranged along the side of the mountain, … afforded a favourable scope for the arrangement of the trees and plantations. A new road, also, leading to the …
Old and New London
… the only tree in the neglected garden that may have borne fruit for Hogarth. There is down-stairs a good panelled … Green; the gardens being very fine and well planted with fruit." Mr. Glendinning's nursery here has long been in … justify." From Turnham Green, a broad road lined with lime-trees, and known as the Duke's New Roadfrom the fact of its …
The Environs of London
… The paddock abounds with a great number of old walnut-trees and Spanish chesnuts, the fruit of which has been known to produce 80l. per annum. Lord …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… century were employed in horticulture, particularly in fruit growing, since Chiswick and neighbouring parishes to … and by Nicholas Parker (d. 1726), who was noted for his fruit trees. Both gardens may have passed to Parker's relative …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… number of inns. 20 Chiswick Mall contained a few tall trees on a grassy verge between the road and the river in … High Road, with its wide pavements lined with plane trees, 97 meanwhile remained a varied and attractive shopping … grounds of Chiswick House. At first there was a garden for fruit and vegetables and one of c. 13 a. for ornamental …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and gates by Decimus Burton in 1835, 95 planted lime trees along Duke's Avenue, forming a drive from High Road to … extending the lake in place of the cascade. 96 Exotic trees and animals were displayed in the park, including an … of Paxton Road pressed close to the tree-lined drive. Trees in the south-west corner had been cleared to make the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… roads, ' is now a grassgrown piece of land, bearing forest trees planted after the hall was destroyed.' 129 The … had been obliterated except the line of a long avenue of trees which was still visible in ancient stumps and gnarled …
Survey of London
… south wall, it being ordered by the Vestry that a Row of Trees be planted by way of boundary to ascertain the same. … monuments in the churchyard were removed n and some of the trees felled by the Stepney Borough Council in 1950. 230 It …