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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 228

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out nine or ten feet. Altogether, from thevaried form of the land, and the different heights in the ter-race wall, an opportunity is given, by the introduction of boldmasses of shrubs in the corners of the terrace, and on the banksoutside, of producing some striking results in the way ofgrouping;… … Fig. 121. 192 GENERAL OBJECTS. There are circular flower beds at 2, with vases, on pedestals,filled with flowers, in the centre of them. At the four cornersof the middle plot, are four small upright vases, for flowers, (3,)also on pedestals. And the figures 4 represent large flattishtazza-shaped…

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