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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… also below is a greyhound. The background has mountains, trees, and a walled city. The foreground has scattered bones …
Old and New London
… the seventeenth century the College Garden contained fruit-trees and an orchard, which was carefully tended. The fruit-trees were ordered to be cut down and superseded by lime-trees in 1708. In 1751, some persons having improperly got …
Old and New London
… the fact that the ground had been planted with mulberry-trees by order of James I., one of whose whims was the … in view, he imported many ship-loads of young mulberry-trees, most of which were planted round the metropolis. … the results proved anything but satisfactory? Christmas-trees are now quite a common sight in almost every English …
Old and New London
… the grey old Abbey, against the tall roof of which the trees seem to rest, half burying it in their foliage, just as … be studied in its arrangement, and that the circle of trees should be made the "centre of a beautiful scene;" in … "Its romantic aspect, the irregularity of the ground, the trees which overshadowed it, and the view of the venerable …
Old and New London
… I. They appear to be a dead level, broken on by a clump of trees in the centre, forming a sort of maze. The foreground …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… in a sloping pleasant meadow, still environed by a few old trees, and commanding a view of the church, and of a rising …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… broad rides aligned on Westonbirt House. The collection of trees and shrubs from all parts of the world was continued by …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… which is set back on the south at the end of an avenue of trees. A manorial dovecot recorded in 1597 and 1764 40 was …