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 72
at the lowerparts, a mere assemblage of bare stems. Their effect is mostmeagre. They want breadth and massiveness. Hence, whenplantations are necessarily so straightened, they should be com-posed mainly of such low-growing shrubs and dwarf-trees,especially evergreens, as will, by being planted… … similar in size and character, such as is frequently seen roundthe margins of small parks, Avhere, if undergrowth of any kindhas ever been planted, it has become killed by the density andshade of the larger trees. Fig. 6 will serve as a hint of theway in which such a belt may be broken up, and its…
Landscape architecture
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