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
rees are generally the worst in the plantation [fig. 233].Add to this, that two narrow slips of plantation will neithergrow so well, nor be such effectual harbours for game, asdeeper masses ; especially where the game is liable to be dis-turbed by a drive betwixt them. The belt may be useful asa… … It is not only the line of the modern belt and drive that isobjectionable, but also the manner in which the plantation ismade, by the indiscriminate mixture of every kind of trees,particularly firs and larches. All variety is lost, and all contrast destroyed, by differentgenera ; by the recurrence…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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