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 93
aising the ground slightly towards the walk, and thendropping it rather suddenly within a few inches of its edge.The mode of effecting this may be seen in fig. 9, which is asection of a lawn falling away from the house, and crossed by asunk walk, the dotted line over the latter showing what the 56… … raising of the ground for some distance to a uniform height, orgiving it a very gentle undulation, to cover a walk, may besuccessfully adopted. It should be recollected, however, thatas before hinted, any portion of a lawn that is raised takes offseveral inches or feet from the view of the part…
Landscape architecture
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