Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written : the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts (1805)
Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818, Repton, J. Adey (John Adey), 1775-1860 · London : Printed by T. Bensley ... for J. Taylor ... · leaf 100
the same distanceof about six feet from the ground, it acts as a scale, by whichthe eye measures the comparative height of trees at any distance;for this reason the importance of a large tree may be injured bycuttine* the lower branches above this usual standard. It isobvious that the following…