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 139
at a fewtrees or bushes at each end of such a line will prevent the eyefrom looking; along: its course. Sometimes it happens, from the intermixture of propertyor other causes, that the fence is obliged to make a very acuteangle; this may occasionally be remedied by another line offence fitting to… … The sharp elbow or projection of the fence A. ceases to beoffensive if another fence can be joined to it as at B. and thesame with the hne of road or walk; the branch obviates thedefect. It has been observed by the adversaries of the art, thatexactly the same line will serve either for a road or a…
