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 123
heir depth, not only in proportion to the heightof the plants placed in them, but because the surface of a massof plants is always more or less broken, and a dell so filled willappear several inches or even one or two feet shallower than ifit had a smooth grassy bottom. Planting by the margins… … Fiz. 30. from the house that its hottom is not seen, keeping it implantedwill preserve the indefiniteness, which is one of its finest effects.If the eye cannot fathom any such dip in the land, there will bea mystic character about it which will lead the imagination to
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