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 204
ese modes may be adopted atpleasure, or the latter may be selected where the masses ofshrubs are but narrow and small, and the former used whenthey are more ample. 7. But the best arrangement of plants as to the shape andrelative position of the masses will be unfinished and defective SKY OUTLINES… … Fig. ill. horizon, and stand out against a back ground of mere sky. Ifnicely disposed, this sky outline will yield the most charmingeffects. But it may also be hard, or tame, and thus becomedisagreeable or utterly ineffective. By a reference to nature, especially in her older vegetableforms, a few…
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