Victorian gardens: The art of beautifying suburban home grounds (1870)
Scott, Frank J. (Frank Jesup), 1828-1919 · [n.p.] D. Appleton & Co. · leaf 52
so that the passer-by cannot enjoyits beauty, is one of the barbarisms of old gardening, as absurd andunchristian in our day as the walled courts and barred windows ofa Spanish cloister, and as needlessly aggravating as the close veilof Egyptian women. It is not well, generally, to plant live… … portions of outbuildings, or as a protection for fruit yards againstinjurious winds; but as a street fence for town or suburban resi-dences they should be made use of but rarely. There are other 56 DWELLINGS, OUTBUILDINGS, places enough where we may avail of all their beauties. Fig. 12shows a…
