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 254
Lombardy Poplar is the commonestinstance; though the upright Elm is another very good example.If such as have pointed or spiry heads be included, many of thesecond class will come within this also,—the Firs especially.Larch, and several round-headed trees, in their younger state,before the upper… … ^u^s^x\ Fig. 134. trees harmonise best with Gothic forms of architecture, andtrees of spiry shape (fig. 134) with Grecian buildings; on theground that the horizontal lines which prevail in the latterstyle, and the perpendicular in the former, are best exhibitedand relieved by contrast with…
Landscape architecture
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