Modern dwellings in town and country adapted to American wants and climate with a treatise on furniture and decoration (1878)
Holly, Henry Hudson, 1834-1892 · New York, Harper & brothers, publishers · leaf 135
ewer roads we have on a small estate the bet-ter. The expense of making and keeping them in order is not only di-minished, but the effect of an unbroken lawn is secured, and the groundsnaturally appear larger. For example, a winding road with the trees so 9 130 MODERN DWELLINGS. disposed as to lose… … Design No. 22. of being diminished by distance. Mr. Lowden, in writing on this subject,has gone so far as to suggest that a small breed of cattle should browsein an adjoining field; and he states that the Kerry cow is so small thatit will nearly double the apparent distance. A road which shall run…
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