European and Japanese gardens; papers read before the American Institute of Architects .. (1902)
Brown, Glenn, 1854-1932, Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926, Sturgis, R. Clipston (Richard Clipston), 1860-1951, Howard, John Galen, 1864-1931, Honda, Kinkichiro, 1850-1921 · Philadelphia, H.T. Coates & Co. · leaf 135
eshortening, the easiest of faults to make, and the mostdifficult to obviate, except by long and dearly bought experi-ence. A plan or birds-eye view, as everyone knows, may becharming, and yet the execution prove very disappointing,owing to just this awful difference in the foreshortening. Ifthis… … European and Japanese Garde NS That it was well-nigh insurmountable we know. But theinstinct of Le Notre for the peculiar beauty of gardens, unitedwith a clear imagination, enabled him to free himself, to aremarkable degree always, and in some instances absolutely,from the cruel hampering of…
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