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 343
k, extend two feet (in vertical depth) belowthe surface of the water, and present a somewhat rugged face.In turfing the banks above, too, the sod (indicated by thindouble lines in the section) should stretch down into the wateras at a, at least nine inches below the water level; for there is 306… … Fig. 168. to the profile of groups of planting by the sides of such piecesof water. Water-birds, on lakes of any magnitude in parks, or on pondsin woods beyond the limits of the pleasure-ground, are generallypretty and vivacious, and give life and motion to any scene.Islands, covered with dense…
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