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 155
und; the latter being sadly out of harmony with 118 GENERAL PRINCIPLES. the squareness of the style. Indeed, the side of a house out ofthe perpendicular would be scarcely less incorrect. From these observations, it will appear that where groundslopes across a lawn, and parallel with the front of… … Fig. 15. natural level of the ground, and the shaded line the level towhich it should be reduced.) The change of level from thisj)oint, in a line taken precisely at a right angle from the houseacross the garden, should be effected, whether ground rises ordescends, by a terrace-bank of grass, the…
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