The landscape gardening and landscape architecture of the late Humphry Repton, esq., being his entire works on these subjects : ...with historical and scientific introduction, a systematic analysis, a biographical notice, notes, and copious alphabetical index (1840)
Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818, Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843 · London : Printed for the editor, and sold by Longman · leaf 217
h the outline of the screen; it is therefore not in ourpower to vary the upper line, and if the plantations be open,the browsing line will make a disagreeable parallel with theeven surface of the ground; this can only be remedied by pre-venting cattle from browsing the underwood, which shouldalways… … [Fig. 65. Trees of different ages, characters, and heights, but each having the browsing line formed by cattle, of the same height.] The browsing line being always at nearly the same distanceof about six feet from the ground, it acts as a scale, by whichthe eye measures the comparative height of…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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