How to lay out a garden : intended as a general guide in choosing, forming, or improving an estate, (from a quarter of an acre to a hundred acres in extent) with reference to both design and execution (1860)
Kemp, Edward, 1817-1891 · New York : Wiley · leaf 104
when it is only to be ob-served at intervals, and is occasionally lost sight of. If waterbe looked at through a leafy screen, it is, moreover, in somedegree sobered down thereby. It does not dazzle or pain the FOREGROUND TO WATER. 67 eye so much. It has all the charm of light and shadow. Itsown… … 1>U .^\x\. Fig. 17. a rich summers evening, towards sunset, or during twright,especially after warm showers, water may often be in the highestdegree beautiful, without any accompaniment. But in generalit will either be too glittering or too cold to be altogether satis-fying, without some aid…
Landscape architecture
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