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 640
the sun, the view of the country will be delightful; sincethe immediate foreground consists of a garden, and the per-petually varying and moving scene which is presented by thegreat road to Canterbury, and the coast. In addition to the usual employments of the paupers inthe work-rooms, it were to… … [Fig. 251. Design for a workhouse proposed for the pariah of Crayford, in Kent.] spades, and hoes, and tools, proportionate to their strength,should be taught and exercised in the cultivation of the gar-den, and, perhaps, drilled to become the future defenders oftheir country. The sketch [fig. 251]…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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