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
Let us suppose the same trees pruned or trimmeil by man,and not by cattle, and this scale will be destroyed; thus afull grown oak may be made to look like an orchard tree, orbv encouraging the under branches to grow lower than theusual standard, a thorn or a crab tree may be mistaken for aaoak at a… … The last tree in the foregoing example is supposed to be oneof those tall elms which, in particular counties, so much disfi-gure the landscape; it is here introduced for the sake of thefollowing remark. 1 am sorry to have observed, that when treeshave long been used to this unsightly mode of…
