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 221
Fig. 117. cf 8 feet to an inch) is intended to show how much the appear-ance and expression of such a wall may be improved by buildingit in a battering rather than an erect form. In making terrace … Fig. 118. walls, too, where they do not run along the principal front of ahouse, or are far enough from it not to come into absoluteconnexion with it, there will sometimes occur a slope, of greateror less steepness, at the base of the wall, such as scarcely anyingenuity or any labour would suffice…
Landscape architecture
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