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Landscape gardening   /lˈændskˌeɪp gˈɑrdənɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Landscape  n.  (Formerly written also landskip)  
1.
A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.
2.
A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc. Compare seascape.
3.
The pictorial aspect of a country. "The landscape of his native country had taken hold on his heart."
Landscape gardening, The art of laying out grounds and arranging trees, shrubbery, etc., in such a manner as to produce a picturesque effect.





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"Landscape gardening" Quotes from Famous Books



... arts. Landscape gardening. Architecture. Sculpture. Drawing, decoration, design. Painting. ...
— Public Speaking • Clarence Stratton
... one gentle refinement existed: this was the love of gardening, both in its smaller compass and it its nobler sense of landscape gardening. 'This place,' Sir Robert, in 1743, wrote to General Churchill, from Houghton, 'affords no news, no subject of entertainment or amusement; for fine men of wit and pleasure about town understand neither the language and taste, nor the pleasure of the inanimate world. My flatterers ...
— The Wits and Beaux of Society - Volume 2 • Grace & Philip Wharton
... the aesthetics of landscape gardening. It is the artist's one desire to make pictures in the landscape. This is done in two ways: by the form of plantations, and by the use of vistas. He will throw his plantations into such positions that open and yet more or less confined areas of greensward are ...
— Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) • L. H. Bailey
... jagged cliff, and faced wherever necessary with rough cobbled sea-stones sunk in wet cement and hardened there. The right wing of the cottage stood out unavoidably at one point against the skyline, and Roger, who had developed a surprising gift of architecture and a sort of rough landscape gardening, was planning an extension of the artificial sea-wall ...
— Margarita's Soul - The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty • Ingraham Lovell
... masters. The door commands the view of a magnificent sweep of green lawn, embellished by an artificial lake. It is singular in how fine and subtle a way different nationalities express themselves in landscape gardening, while employing the same materials. I have seen no grounds on the continent that express the particular shade of ideas which characterize the English. There is an air of grave majesty about the wide sweep of their outlines—a ...
— Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands V2 • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... Hills on the right, and the Isle of Wight and Hengistbury Head on the left. The house itself, as far as I could see, left nothing to be desired, and the grounds had been beautified in the highest form of landscape gardening. ...
— A Bid for Fortune - or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta • Guy Boothby
... stems of ivy had invaded and stifled vigorous trees; in the remoter portions of the park briers barred the road and made walking almost impossible. This disorder was not destitute of charm, and at an epoch when landscape gardening consisted chiefly in straight alleys, and in giving to nature a cold and monotonous symmetry, one's eye rested with pleasure on these neglected clumps, on these waters which had taken a different course to that which art ...
— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - DERUES • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE


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