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 595
aight lines were multiplied in three differentdirections. As the eagerness of adopting this fashion could not alwayswait the tedious growth of trees, where old woods existedthey were cut through in straight lines and vistas, and inform of stars [c], and pates doie [goose feet, d~], which pre-vailed… … [Fig*. 229. Diagram shewing the aveuue, a; the quincunx, 6; the star, c; the pate doie, d.] Fashion, tired of the dull uniformity of straight lines, wasthen driven to adopt something new: yet, still acting bygeometrical rules, it changed to regular forms of circles and [* Several passages in the…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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