Occupation: Author Birth: 1863 Death: 1931
Rhythm, symmetry, and a happy combination of elegance and utility - a blend often desired in later days of hope and struggle - these have been fully ….
Right on to the New Period vineyard arbors were the centre and chief ornament of all gardens..
To Nature the dweller in the Nile valley linked all that was dear to him: his happiest fetes, poetry, and love - all were bound up with the garden an….
In the religion of the Medes and Persians the cult of trees plays an important part, and with them, as with Assyrians, the symbol of eternal life was….
Indian monks were the first to choose the garden as the proper setting for their lives, which were devoted to the contemplation of the divine; but w….
For we must bear in mind that the greater number of garden pictures known to us are taken from tombs..