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 336
the lake, being kept chiefly in the open park, but alsorunning through two enclosures. The dotted lines representthe fences to all the plantations or enclosures, and the mode ofplanting will be fully apparent from the sketch. The area ofthe lake would be a little less than three acres. LAKES AND… … Too frequently in such cases, the treatment of an embankmentof this sort presents a singular example of poverty and feeble-ness of invention. It is commonly made too narrow, or tooabrupt, or is planted chiefly with forest trees, which, whenthey grow up, appear thin and meagre, and sometimes shutout…
Landscape architecture
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