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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 222

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reconcile the discrepancy between theraking ground line and the level courses of the wall or of thehouse. Fig. 119 will afford just a hint of the way in which Ihave dealt with a case of that sort recently, by keeping all theground lines, where they are in grass, exactly parallel with the… … Fig. 119. not only mask the breaks in the ground line, but blend beauti-fully with the wall, and, aided by a few intermediate climbers,clothe it most picturesquely. The practice of employing masses of evergreens to coverchanges of level in grounds, to break the transition between aterraee bank and…

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