Archive image from page 206 of A dictionary of modern gardening. A dictionary of modern gardening . dictionaryofmode01john Year: 1847 ENK 211 —♦— ENT Fig. 40. protect property from fire. They are of various patterns and power. Some of them, worked by a single arm, cast the water fifty to sixty feet high. ENKIANTHUS. Two species. Green-house evergreen shrubs. Cut- tings, Sandy loam and peat. ENTADA. Five species. Stove ever- green climbers. Cuttings. Loam and peat. ENTELEA. Two species. Green- house evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Loam and sandy peat. ENTRANCES. Upon these parts of a residence,
Archive image from page 206 of A dictionary of modern gardening. A dictionary of modern gardening . dictionaryofmode01john Year: 1847 ENK 211 —♦— ENT Fig. 40. protect property from fire. They are of various patterns and power. Some of them, worked by a single arm, cast the water fifty to sixty feet high. ENKIANTHUS. Two species. Green-house evergreen shrubs. Cut- tings, Sandy loam and peat. ENTADA. Five species. Stove ever- green climbers. Cuttings. Loam and peat. ENTELEA. Two species. Green- house evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Loam and sandy peat. ENTRANCES. Upon these parts of a residence, which should give a first and appropriate impression, Mr. Whate- ley has these just remarks : 'The road which leads up to the door of the mansion may go off from it in an equal angle, so that the two sides shall exactly correspond ; and certain ornaments, though detached, are yet rather within the province of architec- ture than of gardening; works of sculp- ture are not, like buildings, objects familiar in scenes of cultivated nature ; but vases, statues, and termini, are usual appendages to a considerable edi- fice : as such, they may attend the man- sion, and trespass a little upon the gar- den, provided they are not carried so far into it as to lose their connexion with the structure. The platform and the road are also appurtenances to the house; all these may, therefore, be adapted to its form ; and the environs will thereby acquire a degree of regu- j larity; but to give it to the objects of | nature, only on account of their prox- imity to others which are calculated to receive it, is, at the best, a refinement. ' Upon the same principles regu- larity has been required in the approach; and an additional reason has been as- signed for it, that the idea of a seat is thereby extended to a distance; but that may be by other means than by an avenue ; a private road is easily known; if carried through grounds, or a park, it is commonly very apparent; even in a lane, her
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