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 342
sion. And it may be remarkedthat, wherever such regular pieces of water are admitted at all,they should ever be attended by some kind of architecturalornaments. Rows of statuary or vases along their sides will, insome places, be peculiarly suitable. In making purely artificial pieces of water, the… … Fig. 1GT. feet to an inch, will exemplify, in section, a good form for suchbanks. And it will also show, from b upwards, how the bankscan be pitched with stone, so as to preserve them from beingwashed away by the action of winds on the water. The stonescan either be rough boulders, or more…
Landscape architecture
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