. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world . th as a tree and as a shrub, throughout Europe, from the earliesttimes. As a tree, it formed, when clipped into shape, hedges, arcades, arbours,an
. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world . th as a tree and as a shrub, throughout Europe, from the earliesttimes. As a tree, it formed, when clipped into shape, hedges, arcades, arbours,and, above all, figures of men and animals. As a shrub, it was used to borderbeds and walks, and to execute numerous curious devices; such as letters, coatsof arms, &c., on the ground ; but of all the uses of the dwarf box, the most im-portant, in the ancient style of gardening, was that of forming parterres of em-broidery ; it being the only evergreen shrub susceptible of forming the delicatelines which that style of parterre required,and of being kept within the narrowlimits of these lines for a number of years. In those days, when the flowers usedin ornamenting gardens were few, the great art of the gardener was to distin-guish his parterres by beautiful and curious artificial forms of evergreenplants. These forms may be described generally as belonging to that styleof ornament known as the taste of Louis Quatorze. Fig. 1216. is a small. portion of the ground plan of a parterre laid out in this manner; all thelines and dark parts of the figure being formed of box, in no part allowedto grow higher than 3 in. from the ground, and the finer lines being about 2 The space between the lines, in the more common designs, was co-tered with sand all of one colour; but in the more choice parterres, diflPerentcoloured sands, earths, shells, powdered glass or potsherds, antl other articles,were used, so as to produce red, white, and black grounds, on which the greenof the box appe
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