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 162
entric softness, and an indescribable butcharming balance of parts. Although nothing may bear thetrammels of a rule, or yield to the fetters of definition inlanguage, there is no want of the flowingness, the connexion, THE PICTURESQUE STYLE. 125 the harmony, so ravishing to the eye ; interrupted,… … Fig. 88. away their magic power. The very instincts of our souls allyus to what is naturally beautiful. Picturesqueness is by some restricted in its application towhatever is fitted for being etfectively represented in pictures;—that, in fact, which an artist would choose to transfer to hiscanvas.…
Landscape architecture
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