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 473
z., although the interior fences (to be lessvisible) may be dark green, yet the entrance gate, and its im-mediately detached fence, should be white, a little subdued, toavoid the offensive glare of paper whiteness, yet sufficientlywhite to prevent accidents, which an invisible gate is apt… … [Pig-. 168. View of Blenden Hall before it was altered.] may serve to explain the effect of removing some tall trees, bywhich it is now oppressed, and deprived of that consequencewhich its Gothic character has assumed. This sort of com-parative influence of trees, on a building, deserves attention…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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