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 160
which, must bear a due proportion to the dimen-sions and character of the objects to be exhibited upon it. Toplace a sculptured figure on grass or gravel, without a plinth orpedestal, or to throw up rude stones, or pebbles, or bouldersaround a small mound of earth made for receiving: it, is as THE… … Fig. 87. pensive materials, properly coloured. It can never be dispensedwith. And herein will be most apparent the difference betweenreal taste and love of ornament; persons who have only thelatter sticking a quantity of figures about their grounds, on thebare grass or gravel, without any support.…
Landscape architecture
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