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 136
from other local circum-stances, a house in the Elizabethan or any kind of Gothic stylemay be fitly accompanied with a purely regular garden, pos-sessing all the features of the formal school. Commencing at the house, which should always be raisedthree or four feet above the common ground level,… … Fig. 35. and either a sloping grass bank, or a low ornamental wall, breakthe change of level, this bank or wall affording the means ofobtaining one or more flights of steps. Whichever of theseplans is pursued, the grass at the edge of the walk, whether onthe top of the bank or at the bottom of the…
Landscape architecture
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