The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 546
den. The greatest service which we can render the author of thisdesign, and our readers, will be to point out what we consider tobe its defects. It wants amalgamation in the parts which com-pose it. There is a mixture of forms, but not a union of them.Where forms are united so as to compose one… … A W // /■^ ^ M On \^ ^ ^i^k c:;:;i y^ .:,:■■.:■■■.:;::.,^.,: ^iiiif fs. ...<-: ;: ■■■■■% centre might be replaced by a circle, without making the designeither better or worse. If it were replaced by a diamond-shapedfigure, with curved sides, that shape would fit better to theGothic curves which…
