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 597
ft A belt should consist of wood, through which a road maywind to various points of view [fig. 232: a, a, views into thepark; b, a view out of the park to the open country]; or 556 REPTONS LANDSCAPE GARDENING, &c. scenery may be shewn under various circumstances of fore-ground; but a drive… … 6 Very different from this is the drive too often adopted,which is an open drive, so wide that it never goes near thetrees, and which admits such a current of air, that the fronttrees are generally the worst in the plantation [fig. 233].Add to this, that two narrow slips of plantation will…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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