 | Charles Henry Curtis, W. Gibson - Topiary work - 1904 - 170 pages
...without discovering what it is that has so agreeable an effect. Our British gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring nature, love to deviate from...cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush. I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but for my own... | |
 | English periodicals - 1905 - 634 pages
...even walls, or into fantastic groups of men and animals. " Our trees," complains the " Spectator," " rise in cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush." An amusing catalogue of the effects of an eminent town gardener... | |
 | Jennie Day Haines - California - 1906 - 96 pages
...time, but the result is eminently delightful. George Milner. Our British gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring nature, love to deviate from...cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush. I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but for my own... | |
 | M. R. Gloag - Gardens - 1906 - 408 pages
...laying out a Garden we are to copy Nature as much as possible. Our British Gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring Nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible." Pope, the most artificial and the wittiest of writers, soon followed suit in the Guardian, and he lashed... | |
 | Gardening - 1907 - 598 pages
...and there in England and in Scotland. As illustrating the second proposition, after remarking that. British gardeners, " instead of humouring Nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible," and that "our trees rise in cones, globes, and pyramids," he declares his own liking for a tree grown... | |
 | John Dixon Hunt, Peter Willis - Architecture - 1988 - 420 pages
...without discovering what it is that has so agreeable an Effect. Our British Gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring Nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible. Our Trees rise in Cones, 142 Globes, and Pyramids. We see the Marks of the Scissars upon every Plant and Bush. I do not know... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 978 pages
...artificial Rudeness' found in France and Italy. 'Our British Gardeners, on the contrary', writes Addison, instead of humouring Nature, love to deviate from...possible. Our Trees rise in Cones, Globes, and Pyramids'. Disdaining the 'Neatness and Elegancy' of classical English gardens, he insists: 'I would rather look... | |
 | Sue Elworthy, Jane Holder - Law - 1997 - 532 pages
...better calculated to display man's power over nature. 'Our British gardeners', wrote Addison in 1712, '...instead of humouring Nature, love to deviate from...cones, globes and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush.' Interestingly enough, the seventeenth century sometimes thought... | |
 | Elizabeth McKellar - Architecture - 1999 - 268 pages
...shows a variety of garden deploring as early as 1712: 'Our British Gardeners ... instead of OF THE CITY humouring Nature, love to deviate from it as much...Cones, Globes and Pyramids. We see the marks of the Scissors upon every Plant and Bush.' 54 Sir Henry Johnson moved into a house in Great Russell Street... | |
 | Laura Stoddart - Gardening - 2001 - 100 pages
...as proud to keep his tail well spread as the man who first carved him. Robert Southey (1 774-1 843) Our trees rise in cones, globes and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush ... I would rather look upon a tree in all its luxuriancy and diffusion... | |
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Our British gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible. Our trees rise in cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush. 
