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 576
[Fig-. 217. Wire fence called invisible.] be said of that wire-bird-cage expedient, which has, of lateyears, been introduced to save the expense of a more lastingbarrier ; and though it may be sufficient to resist sheep, oreven cows, for a few years, in the villas near London, yet themind is not… … [Fig-. 218. Sunk fence with posts supporting1 a chain, separating the pleasure-ground from the park.] a prison-bar, or misty gauze veil ranging above the eye.Besides, iron is a material of which we have had but littleexperience, except that it too soon decays. Eor this reason,a line is shewn on the…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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