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anglo-chinois
French term for a type of irregular informal landscape-garden supposedly evolved from Chinese prototypes and embellished with buildings in the Chinese Taste popularized by Chambers. See Chinoiserie, ...
jardin anglo-chinois
French term for the informal type of ‘natural’ garden. See also sharawadgi.Mosser & Teyssot (eds.) (1991);Parreaux & Plaisant (eds.) (eds.) (1977);
landscape gardening
Improving the appearance of an area of land by planting (including lawns, trees, and shrubs), adding decorative features (such as structures of buildings), and/or altering the level or shape of the ...
sharawadgi Reference library
Patrick Taylor
The Oxford Companion to the Garden
is a term that first appears in print in William Temple's Upon the Gardens of Epicurus; or, Of Gardening, in the Year 1685...
William Temple
(1628–99)William Temple was born in London on 25 April 1628 and died in Moor Park, Surrey on 27 January 1699. He was grandson and namesake of the secretary to ...
