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The Jardin du Roi
I was supposed to be researching something serious the other day, when, as so often, I saw something much more interesting and decided to follow that lead instead. It was an image of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris that … Continue reading
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Tagged botanic garden, Comte de Buffon, Darwin, France, garden buildings, greenhouse, iron, Jean Robin, John Evelyn, mount, Physic Garden
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Sylva Old and New
If you’ve heard of John Evelyn before now it’s probably because of his diaries which are one of our major sources of information about the major events of the mid/late 17thc, and much much more besides. They gives a really … Continue reading
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Tagged economic botany, forestry, John Evelyn, Nehemiah Grew, Royal Society, trees
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Making Mountains and Music in Elysium…
As I hope I showed in a recent post John Evelyn the 17thc diarist and garden writer spent much of his life designing the perfect garden: Elysium Britannicum. It was to be an Eden encompassing a complete miniaturized version of … Continue reading
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Tagged alchemy, artificial stone, cave, coral, de caus, France, Garden of Eden, grotto, Italy, john Beale, John Evelyn, kircher, mount parnassus, mountains, mounts, music, paris, Rock, sound, tuileries, Utopia, wilderness, wind
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The Golden Bough
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without Mistletoe would it? So this is the first of a couple of posts about this mystical plant and the traditions surrounding it which are, according to Richard Mabey, ” amongst Northern Europe’s last surviving remnants … Continue reading
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Tagged Claude Lorraine, Druids, Hypnerotomachi, James Frazer, John Evelyn, mistletoe, Philip Miller, sacred groves, Stephen Switzer, Stowe, Stukeley, Virgil, William Kent
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Artificial Stone 1: the projector, the architect, the thief and the formula
Artificial stone has apparently been around a long time. It wasn’t invented recently by jerry builders trying to copy the real thing on the cheap, or even by a prestigious company like Haddonstone, but probably by the Romans. However not … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial stone, batty langley, Coade, Daniel Pincot, John Bacon, John Evelyn, Longford Castle, Lord Burlington
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