The Amateur Garden - George Washington Cable - Książki - Independently Published - 9798585861437 - 21 stycznia 2021
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The Amateur Garden

George Washington Cable

The Amateur Garden

Book Excerpt: ... This ravine, the middle one of the grove's three, is about a hundred feet wide. When I first began to venture the human touch in it, it afforded no open spot level enough to hold a camp-stool. From the lawn above to the river road below, the distance is three hundred and thirty feet, and the fall, of fifty-five feet, is mostly at the upper end, which is therefore too steep, as well as too full of varied undergrowth, for any going but climbing. In the next ravine on its left there was a clear, cold spring and in the one on its right ran a natural rivulet that trickled even in August; but this middle ravine was dry or merely moist. Here let me say to any who would try an amateur landscape art on their own acre at the edge of a growing town, that the town's growth tends steadily to diminish the amount of their landscape's natural water supply by catching on street pavements and scores and hundreds of roofs, lawns and ...

Media Książki     Paperback Book   (Książka z miękką okładką i klejonym grzbietem)
Wydane 21 stycznia 2021
ISBN13 9798585861437
Wydawcy Independently Published
Strony 94
Wymiary 216 × 280 × 5 mm   ·   240 g
Język English  

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