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 205
Fis. 112. broken, but not in a hard or abrupt manner. Trees or shrubsshould tower out, here and there, above the rest; but theymust not be unsupported. (See figs. 112 and 113.) Their … edges should blend with other forms by the softest transition.Boldness, as well as easiness of change, will be highly effective. SKY OUTLINES OF PLANTATIONS. 169 But it should be like the bold swell of a general curve, com-posed, it may be, of several parts, but the outer of thesegradually carrying…
Landscape architecture
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