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 191
TS. some sufficient object. A great change of level, a tree, plant,or group of plants, and a variety of such things, will justify acurve in a walk ; and when it is straight, something must bedistinctly placed to stop it, where it turns off in a lateraldirection. It should appear as if it could not… … Fig. 97. as if they would soon unite again. Of course, this will notapply to the case of their merely passing round circles or ovals,where it is simply assumed that the obstacle in the centrecauses a temporary diversion. While the shrubs and plantations that skirt the sides ofwalks, at intervals,…
Landscape architecture
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