The art and practice of landscape gardening (1890)
Milner, Henry Ernest · London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent · leaf 47
ouse. Such base is called a terrace, and the space enclosedby the horizontal lines, a terrace garden, described in detail here-after. The terrace garden is an artificial creation, and should showin every detail the hand of man, differing in this from the gardenproper, which, though fine in… … THE TERRACE. The terrace is not only the narrow strip of raised level groundplaced parallel with the house, or the more stately portion — oftenwith architectural adornments — that is laid out along the face ofthe structure, but must be understood as the whole of the groundthat forms the base, or…
Landscape architecture
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