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 125
reluctance. And however good and desirable changeof surface may be, beauty must not be sacrificed to variety. The slope of any elevation, therefore, however small, shouldbe so prolonged as imperceptibly to merge into the commonlevel, (fig. 34,) and by a concave line of the gentle.-t possible 88… … Fig. 34. reach the middle of its descent, it should then almost imme-diately commence to curve under. More positive, because more sudden, variations of surface,may be engendered by what is termed picturesqueness. In thiskind of scenery, the forms are all rugged, the lines broken, thechanges abrupt.…
Landscape architecture
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