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 218
lower branches above this usual stand-ard. It is obvious that the foregoing trees [see fig. 65] are THEORY AND PRACTICE, &c. 177 of different ages, characters, and heights, yet the browsingline is the same in all, and furnishes a natural scale by whichwe at once decide on their relative heights… … [Fig. 66. Trees of different a^es, characters, and heights, pruned by man, in which the scale formed by thebrowsing line is destroyed.] orchard-tree, or by encouraging the under branches to growlower than the usual standard, a thorn or a crab-tree may bemistaken for an oak, at a distance. The last…
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