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 585
in a glade in the skirt of anextensive natural oak copse near the road, with a lawn in front and behind,the kitchen-garden and oifices at one side, and an orchard and gardenerscottage at the other. Two or three paddocks or ploughed fields, and exten-sive copse woods, with a winding brook and… … the copse are kept as clean, dry, and open as copse walks can be. Thevarious bridges over the brooks, and the consequent turns of the walk; theglimpses of the water and broken banks, caught here and there through thetrees ; the numerous wild plants, abundance of pheasants, singing birds,…
