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 345
necessary as a matter of safety ; for no extension of hand-railsor parapet walls would accomplish the same end. It is de-manded artistically, to relieve and soften the rigidity of line, … Fte. 171. and to associate the object better with the natural accompani-ments beyond. And where embankments have to be made BRIDGES AND BOAT-HOUSES. 309 at the ends of bridges, to cany a walk or road easily overthem, the addition of masses of shrubs, to mask those embank-ments, is all the more…
Landscape architecture
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