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On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.
`` The cannery '', said Mrs. Lewellyn Lundeen, an active booster of the cannery since its opening during the war and rationing years of 1941, to handle the `` victory garden '' produce, `` is a service to the taxpayer.
The pressure for our entry to the Common Market is mounting and we will proceed towards this amalgamated trade union by way of a purely `` economic thoroughfare '', or garden path, with the political ramifications kept neatly in the background.
It is designated as Stage 1 Residential on the Redevelopment Authority's master plan and will feature row houses, garden apartments, four small parks, schools, churches, a shopping center and several small clusters of stores.
Two blocks west of the Old Town is the Kuchlbauer Brewery and beer garden featuring the Kuchlbauer Tower, a colorful and unconventional observation tower designed by Viennese architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
Park Güell ( ) is a garden complex with architectural elements situated on the hill of El Carmel in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
It was inspired by the English garden city movement ; hence the original English name Park ( in the Catalan language spoken in Catalonia where Barcelona is located, the word for " Park " is " Parc ", and the name of the place is " Parc Güell " in its original language ).
The Botanical Garden of Acapulco is a tropical garden located on lands owned by the Universidad Loyola del Pacifico.
According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Asgard is derived from Old Norse āss, god + garðr, enclosure ; from Indo-European roots ansu-spirit, demon ( see cognate ahura ) + gher-grasp, enclose ( see cognates garden and yard ).< ref >; See also ansu-and gher -< sup > 1 </ sup > in " Appendix I: Indo-European Roots " in the same work .</ ref >
: An amaranth planted in a garden near a Rose-Tree, thus addressed it: " What a lovely flower is the Rose, a favorite alike with Gods and with men.
The building forms a U-shape around a central inner " garden " the central feature of which is a kidney-shaped swimming pool.
By the lake is the Daulat Bāgh, a garden laid out by Emperor Jahāngīr.
Meanwhile, in the garden, Fredrik and Carl-Magnus reflect on how difficult it is to be annoyed with Desiree, agreeing " It Would Have Been Wonderful " had she not been quite so wonderful.
Located 10 miles ( 16 km ) northwest of Ullapool, Achiltibuie is home to the Hydroponicum, a garden where plants are grown using a hydroponic system, in water and without soil.
Badminton is also played outdoors as a casual recreational activity, often as a garden or beach game.
The Buckingham Palace Garden is the largest private garden in London.
It is sometimes known by the metonym The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street or simply The Old Lady, a name taken from the legend of Sarah Whitehead, whose ghost is said to haunt the bank's garden.
Chervil ( Anthriscus cerefolium ), sometimes called garden chervil, is a delicate annual herb related to parsley.
At the western edge of Cambridge, the cemetery is well known as the first garden cemetery, for its distinguished inhabitants, for its superb landscaping ( the oldest planned landscape in the country ), and as a first-rate arboretum.
It is equal to many fertilizers and manures purchased in garden stores.
The inlet grate for the water pipe that is used to transport the water can be seen next to the sensory garden in Cheddar Gorge.
The plants are raised from seed, sown either in a hot bed or in the open garden according to the season of the year, and after one or two thinnings and transplantings, they are, on attaining a height of 15 – 20 cm, planted out in deep trenches for convenience of blanching, which is effected by earthing up to exclude light from the stems.

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A front garden of flower beds bordered by box leads to the " kitchen / dining " room with furniture covered with plants.
It has a memorial garden bordered by hedges, a grass area, three hard tennis courts and a children's playground.
Closer to the house were a series of more formal gardens, including canal ponds bordered by plantations containing symmetrical walks resembling the " rond-points " ( circular clearings in a garden from which straight paths radiate ) introduced by the landscape gardener André Le Nôtre.
The upper garden, located to the north, is bordered by the greenhouse.
He eliminated the street which separated the palace and the garden, and replaced it with a terrace looking down upon parterres bordered by low boxwood hedges and filled with designs of flowers.
) The ornamental canal was the highlight of the garden, running straight down it, bordered by rows of trees.
The vernacular of the Korean garden generally includes evergreen trees ( various species of Korean pine ) as a constant, flowering pear trees in the spring ; bamboo forests alongside the secondary entrance gates of temples and palaces symbolize fidelity and honesty ; and straight walks tend to be bordered by larger sized gravels of irregular shape.
To the south of the ensemble is the walled Angelicum garden bordered by private properties.

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Travelers entering from the desert were confounded by what must have seemed an illusion: a great garden filled with nightingales and roses, cut by canals and terraced promenades, studded with water tanks of turquoise tile in which were reflected the glistening blue curves of a hundred domes.
she filled the waste spots of the yard with common things like the garden heliotrope in a corner by the woodshed, and the plantain lilies along the west side of the house.
Then, at last, his day would fall into an ordered pattern and he would be free to read, or garden or just wander through the woods in the late afternoon, accompanied by his dogs.
sore feet by calf's-foot, an herb from the pioneer's ubiquitous herb garden, or by soaking the feet in a pan of hot water in which two cups of salt had been dissolved.
Louisa May Alcott, who was ten years old at the time, later wrote of the experience in Transcendental Wild Oats ( 1873 ): " The band of brothers began by spading garden and field ; but a few days of it lessened their ardor amazingly.
He travelled back and forth to his friend's garden and to the Leiden University by trekschuit.
In 1709 he became professor of botany and medicine, and in that capacity he did good service, not only to his own university, but also to botanical science, by his improvements and additions to the botanic garden of Leiden, and by the publication of numerous works descriptive of new species of plants.
Claude Monet, in his garden, by Étienne Clémentel, c. 1917
His home, garden and waterlily pond were bequeathed by his son Michel, his only heir, to the French Academy of Fine Arts ( part of the Institut de France ) in 1966.
In the constellation Cerberus introduced by Johannes Hevelius in 1687, Cerberus is sometimes substituted for the " branch from the tree of the golden apples " fetched by Atlas from the garden of the Hesperides.
Large numbers of hybrids are available for the garden, since the British A. vulgaris was joined by other European and North American varieties.
In 1904 the ground was acquired by businessman Gus Mears and his brother Joseph, who had also purchased nearby land ( formerly a large market garden ) with the aim of staging football matches on the now 12. 5 acre ( 51, 000 m² ) site.
Also in central Davenport, the Vander Veer Park Historic District is a neighborhood anchored by Vander Veer Park, a large park with a botanical garden and a fountain.

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