Gardens, old and new; the country house & its garden environment (1900)
Leyland, John, 1857?-1924, ed, Tipping, H. Avray (Henry Avray), 1855-1933, ed, Country Life Limited · London, The Offices of "Country life illustrated": George Newnes, Ltd., New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 119
ss. Below the terraces the landscape character extends.Some part of the grounds was laid out by the celebratedCapability Brown, chief among landscape gardeners, and,unless that worthy be libelled, he actually proposed, in hisvain search for uniform level or slope, to blow up thepicturesque rock… … THE LOWER TEkRACB. Admirably did the garden architect employ his opportunities,and the terrace walls, balustrades, and descents, adornedwith figures and vases, some of them of lead, and all quaintor admirable, will contrast favourably with any other examplesof the same style in the land. This…
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