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 122
ften further desirable to formanother low bank, (fig. 28,) if the material can be had, and toraise the beds or masses towards the edges of the lawn, that thelimits of the ground and the line of the walks may be moreperfectly hidden. Between these banks, then, there will be a VARIETY FROM… … or less play of surface. If there be a pool of water, a fish-pond,or a small lake of varied shape, the sloping of the ground downto either of these will supply the means of getting a little moreundulation; and the earth taken out to form them may beemployed in making increased banks. The raising of…
Landscape architecture
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