The Bamboo GardenMacmillan, 1896 - 224 ページ |
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Algiers appearance ARUNDINARIA FALCATA Arundinaria japonica ARUNDINARIA NITIDA Arundinaria Simoni ARUNDINARIA VEITCHII BAMBUSA BAMBUSA DISTICHA BAMBUSA PALMATA base beauty botanists bracts branches branchlets bright green canes China circumference climate clumps colour conspicuous Ctesias culm sheaths culms cultivation edges English feet above sea feet high FLEXUOSA flowers foliage forests Fota Island fringed frost garden glaucous grow growth hairs half an inch hardy Bamboos height Henonis Himalayas inches in length inches long inflorescence internodes Japan Japanese Japanese gardeners knots leaf leaf sheaths ligule limbus Messrs Métaké midrib Mount Salak Munro).—Tessellated leaves nodes petiole Phyllo PHYLLOSTACHYS AUREA Phyllostachys mitis PHYLLOSTACHYS NIGRA plants prominent purple QUILIOI rhizome ripen Rivière roots rootstock round says secondary nerves seed serrated shoots Shrubland side Sikkim slender soil species specimens spikelet spring stamens stem stomata summer surface tessellated tessellated leaves THAMNOCALAMUS FALCONERI upper VEITCHII viridi-glaucescens waxy bloom winter
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196 ページ - Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
192 ページ - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
223 ページ - ... are sparkling, sensational, and dramatic, and the originality of their ideas and the quaintness of their language give them a most captivating piquancy. The illustrations are extremely interesting, and for the curious in such matters have a special and particular value.
223 ページ - Mitford (AB) — TALES OF OLD JAPAN. By AB MITFORD, Second Secretary to the British Legation in Japan. With Illustrations drawn and cut on Wood by Japanese Artists. New and Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s. " They •will always be interesting as memorials of a most exceptional society ; while, regarded simply as tales, they are sparkling, sensational, and dramatic...
209 ページ - A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
209 ページ - Here he planted the vines and the quincunx which his verses mention; and being under the necessity of making a subterraneous passage to a garden on the other side of the road, he adorned it with fossile bodies, and dignified it with the title of a grotto; a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and passions could be excluded.
224 ページ - ... but in the wide fields of nature, the sight wanders up and down without confinement, and is fed with an infinite variety of images, without any certain stint or number. For this reason we always find the poet in love with a country life, where nature appears in the greatest perfection, and furnishes out all those scenes that are most apt to delight the imagination.
209 ページ - ... some excuse for Pope's folly, but what can be said for that of the Duke of Newcastle, over which the County history gloats with honest pride ? — The pleasure grounds are beautifully laid.; out ; and a delightful walk through the shrubbery leads to a romantic grotto, which was constructed at a great expense for the Duke of Newcastle by three persons (a father and his two sons), who are reported to have been employed in the work several years. It consists of four or five apartments, the sides...
199 ページ - Japanese are true lovers of scenery ; no people have a keener feeling for a beautiful landscape ; to them a moon rising over Mount Fuji is a poem, and their pilgrimages to see the almonds in blossom or the glories of the autumn tints are almost proverbial — and yet, strange to say, in their gardens they seem to take a delight in setting at defiance every one of those canons which Nature has laid down so unmistakably for those who will be at the pains to read them. The Japanese garden is a mere...
27 ページ - ... beauty's fan and parasol, the soldier's spear, quiver, and arrows, the scribe's pen, the student's book, the artist's brush and the favorite study for his sketch ; the musician's flute, mouth-organ, plectrum, and a dozen various instruments of strange shapes and still stranger sounds — in the making of all these the bamboo is a first necessity. Plaiting and wicker-work of all kinds, from the coarsest baskets and matting down to the delicate filigree...