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
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… … Fig. 29. in a small swell around each specimen plant, as before described,will help to vary the surface. Undulations may exist naturally in a garden or field, andthese should be scrupulously preserved, and rather be added tothan curtailed. As a rule, the bottom of a hollow should neverbe planted,…
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