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 238
. evident, too, that the pleasure-grounds are divided from the fieldby a wire fence, which, being light, and several feet below thelevel of the house, will be virtually overlooked from the windows.The terrace-garden (fig. 129) which I have now to describe,was designed for a romantic situation in… … Fig. 129. 202 GENERAL OBJECTS. and mingle with the ornamental parapet wall. This wall isbuilt partly on the sloping bank, and the plateau between it andthe house is valued as being the only level piece of ground any-where in the neighbourhood. A pleasant stream winds alongthe valley at the base of…
Landscape architecture
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