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 609
d parks, through which public roads were purposelymade to pass, and the views displayed by means of sunk 568 REPTONS LANDSCAPE GARDENING, &c. fences. Now, on the contrary, as soon as a purchase of landis made, the first thing is to secure and shut up the whole bya lofty close pale, to cut down… … [Fig. 239. View from a public road which passes through a forest waste.] spot; formerly, the venerable trees marked the property oftheir ancient proprietor; and the adjoining forest, waste, orcommon, might, perhaps, produce nothing but beauty; nowthe trees are gone, the pale is set at the very…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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