The art and practice of landscape gardening (1890)
Milner, Henry Ernest · London : The author : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent · leaf 107
completely; our imagination is con-fused or frustrated. In such circumstances the mind seizes withavidity and delight on distant but definite objects, such even as ashore of broken form, or a headland. An artificial lake may be outof proportion to the size of the estate. If the shore be flat,… … i WATER. 63 ness, gives that result; a low shore, without trees or other likefeatures, though it may apparently increase the extent, does so bythe diminution of picturesqueness. In practice, an apparent curvedor bay-like outline may be given to a shore when viewed across alarge sheet of water, by…
Landscape architecture · Gardening
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