Joys of the Garden (Classic Reprint)
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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Shaylor, Sidney J.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Joys of the Garden In the public garden at Palermo, adjoining the road, I peacefully passed the most pleasurable hours. It is the most marvellous spot in the world. Though laid out in regular order, it is like fairy-land; planted no great time since, it sets us down amidst antiquity. Green parterres embrace foreign shrubs, lemon-espaliers arch themselves into comely leaf-shaded walks, lofty walls of oleander, gemmed with a thousand red clove-like blossoms, arrest the eye. Foreign trees entirely unknown to me, still leafless, probably from warmer climes, spread forth curious branches. A bench raised behind the level ground brings into view vegetation so wonderfully interwoven, and guides the gaze at last to great basins, wherein gold and silver fish dart fascinatingly about, now hiding under mossy reeds, now assembling again in shoals, lured by a bit of bread. Everywhere upon the plants appears a green that we are not used to see, now yellower, now bluer than with us. But that which threw over the whole the rarest grace was a hazy vapour, pervading everything uniformly with so striking effect, that objects but a few steps´ distance behind one another, stood forth by a distinct shade of light blue from each other, so that their own colour was finally lost, or at least presented itself to the eye through a blue medium. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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