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Dutch garden
Dutch garden n. see quots.
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a1772 T. Whately Observ. Mod. Gardening (1801) iv. 153 To get too, as far as can be, the advantage of natural prospects, the artificial mounts of the flat Dutch gardens should here be introduced.
1872 A. Smee My Garden 584 The chief peculiarities of a Dutch garden may be said to consist in its being seen at one glance;..in the utmost symmetry being observed in all its parts..; in its trees being clipped sometimes into curious shapes and figures..; in its having long serpentine or straight walks..; [etc.].
1899 S. R. Hole Our Gardens 277 I asked an old gardener whether he could tell me anything about Dutch Gardens, and he made answer, ‘They be bits o' beds with edgings o' box, and gravel walks, and four sloping banks forming a square outside, and they be pratty toys for children, and very snug for varmint.’
1902 H. I. Triggs Formal Gardens pl. 58 Holland House, Kensington. The Dutch Garden.
1928 L. Archer-Hind tr. M. L. Gothein Hist. Garden Art II. xiii. 218 People were misled by the term ‘Dutch garden’, as it came to be used derisively in the eighteenth century.
1928 L. Archer-Hind tr. M. L. Gothein Hist. Garden Art II. xiii. 230 The Dutch garden must be reckoned as of the French school.
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