An encyclopædia of cottage, farm, and villa architecture and furniture : containing numerous designs for dwellings from the cottage to the villa including farm houses, farmeries, and other agricultural buildings, several designs for country inns, public houses, and parochial schools, with the requisite fittings-up fixtures and furniture ; and appropriate offices, gardens and garden scenery ; each design accompanied by analytical and critical marks illustrative of the principles of archtiectural science and taste on whihc it is composed (1836)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843 · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, and sold by John Weale, at the Architectural Library, High Holborn · leaf 1016
are worse understood. A rockery is too frequently a mere mass of stories of different sizesand kinds, perhaps mixed with bricks, piled together without any attempt at expression orcharacter; in short, more as a nidus for a particular description of plants, than for effectas a mass of visible rock,… … extent the object ought to be the imitation of nature. For this purpose, the artistshould first conceive in his mind some description of natural rock, either above the sur-face, which he intends to imitate; or under it, which he intends to indicate. As the sub-ject belongs much more to Gardening…
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