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 195
ese and close wooden fences may be moundedagainst on the inside, to the depth of two or more feet; which,if the bank be made the full breadth of the border, and softlyworked into the common level of the garden, or to the edge 158 GENERAL OBJECTS. of a walk, will greatly take off the height of the… … Fig. 103. inches high, towards the road, and a hedge planted immedi-ately within the wall, on a sloping bank. The hedge, whenfully grown, would overhang the wall, and be cut flush withthe face of it, as shown in the sketch. Such a fence would bepeculiarly neat and trim, and yet quite country-like,…
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