| William Robinson - Gardening - 1868 - 328 pages
...naturalibus is not a beauty to be added to our gardens, but Nature's laws should not be violated, and but few human beings have contravened them more than our...nearly all the irregularity of Nature seen in every bkde of grass, in every sea- wave, and in every human countenance 5 and which may be found too, in... | |
| William Robinson - 1869 - 330 pages
...naturalibus is not a beauty to be added to our gardens, but Nature's laws should not be violated, and but few human beings have contravened them more than our...irregularity of Nature seen in every blade of grass, in every sea-wave, and in every human countenance; and which may be found too, in some way, in every garden... | |
| Jane Loudon - 1870 - 396 pages
...the fact before his eyes, the nearer truth and success will be attained. Nature in puris naturalibus we cannot have in our gardens, but Nature's laws should...few human beings have contravened them more than our flower-gardeners during the past twenty years. We must compose from Nature, as the best landscape artists... | |
| simpkim marshall & co - 1871 - 460 pages
...as given atfpage 5 of the Introduction, is in the following terms :— " Nature in parts naturalibis we cannot have in our gardens, but Nature's laws should...flower gardeners during the past twenty years. We should compose from Nature, as landscape artists do. We may have in our gardens—and without making... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1871 - 546 pages
...The following sentence gives his idea of what gardening should be. " Nature, in puris naturalibits, we cannot have in our gardens, but Nature's laws should...few human beings have contravened them more than our flower-gardeners during the past twenty years. We should compose them from Nature, as landscape artists... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1871 - 662 pages
...The following sentence gives his idea of what gardening should be. " Nature, in puris naturalibus, we cannot have in our gardens, but Nature's laws should...few human beings have contravened them more than our flower-gardeners during the past twenty years. We should compose them from Nature, as landscape artists... | |
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