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 227
. hills: but, whenever the hills are sufficiently bold to admit ofground being seen, between large trees in the valley, and thoseon the brow of the hill, it marks so decided a degree of elevation,that it ought sedulously to be preserved. Instead, therefore,of removing the trees in the valley, at e,… … [Fig. 68. Viewf rom the house at Sharrteloes, on the supposition that certain proposed improvementshave been carried into execution.] uses, besides acting as an ornament to the scenery, whichseems to require some artificial objects to appropriate thewoods to the magnificence of place ; because wood…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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