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
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… … Fig. 2. surface of the ground, as it slopes from the house, would bean evil, because it would seriously foreshorten the whole, andreduce its size materially as seen from the windows. A verygentle slope, with only a small portion of roundness in it, willbe preferable. One of the chief desiderata in…
Landscape architecture
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