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 93
a mud bank, heplaced deciduous trees of every kind, but especially birch, in-termixed with thorns, crabs, and old hollies, cutting off theirheads and all their branches about eight feet from the ground:these are planted in a puddle and the earth laid round theirroots in small hillocks, which… … This sketch shews the difFerence between the sort of clumpso often seen on a common, and that mode of planting stumpsof trees and thorns recommended in the foregoing page; theappearance at first is not very promising, but in a few yearsthey will become such irregular groups and natural thickets…
