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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 85

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bottom of the channel: thismay be accomplished at Harewood, where the most beautifulstone is easily procured; but in disposing the ledges of rock, theyshould not be laid horizontally, but with the same slanting incli-nation that is observed more or less in the bed of the neighbour-ing river. A hint… … ■• jJn/V ■^»r/Tc.rA •■ 45 CHAPTER IV. Of PLANTING for immedtafe and for future Bffect--Clumps—Groups—Masses—New Mode of planting Wastes and Commons—the browsing Line described—Example Milton Abbey—Combination of Masses to produce great Woods—ExampleCooMBE Lodge—Character and Shape of Ground to be…

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