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 183
fences on either sideof an entrance should present a convex form to the high road,as this is the natural form of approach, and affords less oppor-tunity for the accumulation of weeds or nuisances. But if adignified architectural character be sought, and the entrance isintended to be bold and… … Fig. 91. piece of grass, on which a few shrubs or trees may be scatteredor grouped. As a house ought invariably to be on higher ground than thebulk of the garden, in order that it may not appear damp, orburied, and shut away from all views into the surroundingcountry, so the approach to it,…
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