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 154
face is un-questionably the best for the purpose, as the lines will appearlonger. When a line slopes away from the point of view, it is,to some extent, foreshortened. If the ground should, by any unfortunate chance, rise as itrecedes from the house, it may be kept flat to as great a widthas is… … Fig. IB. by grassy slopes, or by low architectural walls. The latter ofthese is represented by fig. 74, and the former will be seen infig. 73.
Landscape architecture
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