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 330
way requisite that the marginsshould be straight or regular, a bowling-green may often beconcocted out of the principal lawn, where the ground is flatenough for the purpose. Still, if there be sufficient space in the garden, and thenatural levels of the land admit of it, a bowling green may be… … green being sunk two feet, and there being a terrace bankdenning it all round. The circular shape was adopted as beingmore beautiful than a square, and as allowing, between the 2^4: SPECIAL DEPARTMENTS. green and the square walk around it, an opportunity of plantingthe margin effectively. The main…
Landscape architecture
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