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 439
scarcely know the individual plant; 398 REPTONS LANDSCAPE GARDENING, &c. although some writers have mentioned the reed, the acanthus,and the lotus.* It is a curious circumstance, that the general forms ofenrichments may be thus classed: The GOTHIC are derivedfrom the bud, or germ [see note f in… … [Fig. 139. Imaginary sketch, to shew the forms of enrichment in Gothic architecture from the bud;Grecian from the leaf; and Indian from the flower.] [ * In this and the preceding paragraph, Mr. Repton appears to haveobtained a glimpse of the Theory of Imitation, so beautifully developed…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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