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 37
place on a flat surface can very rarelyboast of any distant prospect whatever; and, too often, theproprietor is obliged to be content with a hard edgy line ofboundary plantation ; or, if he should not be hemmed in onevery side by houses, he may form breaks in his boundary line,so as to let in… … not on the one hand harmonise with the foreground, and on theother blend with the horizon, or rise into the atmosphere in theform of distant mountains, and thus be comparatively lost in theclouds. However varied and beautiful the grounds of a resi-dence may be within themselves, they will never…
