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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 111

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g tree. And here the remark naturally occurs, that variety may be further attained by placing single plants and groups on a lawn. (See figs. 21 and 22.) In doing this, everything like straightness and formality is specially to be discarded. The size and shape of the groups, while they are in due… … Fisr. 21. VARIETY FROM PLANTS AND GROUPS. ^5 furnish a lawn, and shut up the walks here and there in orderto produce freshness; but not so many as to encumber andcramp the place. A few good bold openings between them,where the space is small, will be better than a great number Fig. 22.of petty…

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