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 52
which rises as itrecedes from the house, will appear larger, because more of itssurface will be seen, yet the reverse of this would be the casewhen looked at from the outside of the garden, or from anypoint just within its boundary; and a slope from the housegives to the latter an appearance of… … Fig. 1. entirely convex, with the house on its summit. If the groundalso rises in a gentle bank, just towards the boundary, such aslope, being more perfectly seen from the house, will enlargethe apparent extent; the general section of such a plot beingshown in fig. 2. But any great amount of…
Landscape architecture
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