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 306
nthe pleasure grounds of Wm. Longman, Esq., of ChorleywoodPlace, near Rickmansworth, Herts. There is another flower-plot on the south-east side of the house, immediately under thewindows; and the reason for detaching the circular group now FLOWER-GARDENS. 269 represented was that, on the north-west… … Fig. 153. flower-beds, it was found that the colours in the latter wereconspicuously improved, by contrast, in summer, and that,altogether, the association of the two was too agreeable andunique to be foregone. But, to prevent a flower-garden in such a position from look-ing too bare, especially in…
Landscape architecture
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