 ... walks and shrubberies, now mixed and overgrown with wild plants and creepers, that crawl over and shoot among the fallen ruins. Sedums, wallflowers, and other vegetables that bear drought find nourishment in the decayed cement from which the stones...  The Horticultural Register - Pagina 3701836Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Sir Uvedale Price - 1810 - 444 pagine
...that crawl over, and shoot among the fallen ruins. Sedums, wall-flowers, and other vegetables that bear drought, find nourishment in the decayed cement...ivy mantles over other parts, and crowns the top. The even, regular lines of the doors and windows are broken, and through their ivy-fringed openings... | |
 | 1833 - 370 pagine
...and shoot among the fallen ruins. Sedums, wall-flowers, and other vegetables that bear drought, lind nourishment in the decayed cement, from which the...ivy mantles over other parts, and crowns the top. The even, regular lines of the doors and windows are broken, and through their ivy-fringed openings... | |
 | 1834 - 506 pagine
...creepers, that crawl over and shoot among the fallen ruins. Sedums, wall-flowers, and other vegetables that bear drought, find nourishment in the decayed cement,...ivy mantles over other parts, and crowns the top. The even, regular lines of the doors and windows are broken, and through their ivy-fringed openings... | |
 | 1836 - 342 pagine
...crcepers, that crawl over and shoot among the fallen ruins. Sedums, wall-flowers, and other vegetables that bear drought, find nourishment in the decayed cement, from which the stones have bcen detached ; birds convey their food into the chinks; and yew, elder, and other berried plants,... | |
 | 1838 - 1014 pagine
...creepers, that crawl over and shoot among the fallen ruins. Sedums, wall-flowers, and other vegetables that bear drought, find nourishment in the decayed cement,...ivy mantles over other parts, and crowns the top. The even, regular lines of the doors and windows are broken, and through their ivy-fringed openings... | |
 | Charles James Richardson - 1873 - 528 pagine
...creepers that crawl over and shoot among the falling ruins. Sedums, wall-flowers, and other plants that bear drought, find nourishment in the decayed cement...ivy mantles over other parts, and crowns the top. The even, regular lines of the doors and windows are broken, and through their ivy-fringed openings... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 pagine
...that crawl over, and shoot among the fallen \ uins. Sedums, wall-flowers, and other vegetables that bear drought, find nourishment in the decayed cement...ivy mantles over other parts, and crowns the top. The even, regular lines of the doors and windows are broken, and through their ivyfringed openings... | |
 | Charles James Richardson - 1898 - 522 pagine
...creepers that crawl over and shoot among the falling ruins. Sedums, wall-flowers, and other plants that bear drought, find nourishment in the decayed cement...the- ivy mantles over other parts, and crowns the lop. The even, regular lines of the doors and windows are broken, and through their ivy-fringed openings... | |
 | Ian L. Donnachie, Carmen Lavin - 2004 - 400 pagine
...that crawl over, and shoot among the fallen ruins. Sedums, wall-flowers, and other vegetables that bear drought, find nourishment in the decayed cement...architecture is generally considered as more picturesque, though less beautiful than Grecian; and upon the same principle that a ruin is more so than a new edifice.... | |
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