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 213
out their proportions better. It is likewise more accord-ant with nature ; for when these trifling elevations have fullysettled down, they will but resemble, in a rather exaggeratedform, the slighter swells common about the base of the trunksof old trees, and consequent partly on accumulations of… … Fig. 116. more play of surface around them. But the raised parts mustblend very gently, and sweetly, and by a scarcely perceptibleconvex line at the top, and a very easy and more or lessprolonged concave line at the bottom, (fig. 116,) with the levels ARCHITECTUKAL GARDENING. 177 of the ground; and…
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