Parks and Pleasure Grounds: Or, Practical Notes on Country Residences, Villas, Public Parks, and Gardens |
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Page iv - The author, while engaged in his profession for the last eighteen years, has often been requested to recommend a book which might enable persons to acquire some general knowledge of the principles of Landscape Gardening. The object of the present work is to preserve a plain and direct method of statement, to be intelligible to all who have had an ordinary education, and to give directions which, it is hoped, will be found to be practical by those who have an adequate knowledge of country affairs....
Page 118 - ... or stunt them to an extent from which they may never recover. The thinning of fir plantations need not begin before the trees press so much on each other as not only to check the growth of the lower branches, but also to kill a portion of those next the ground. In hardwood plantations, the thinning commences when the nurses press so much on the permanent trees as really to injure them ; but only such trees should be removed as actually do so. When the pressure is slight, it may be relieved by...
Page 221 - ... landscape gardener has most of his objects laid down. He must accept of locality with its natural features and the contour of the ground, which often prescribes a particular treatment; he must conceal deformities, elicit existing but apparent beauties., and to adorn whatever is susceptible of improvement. A man may thrust his preconceived fancies on a place as fast as he can stake them out, but if the treatment is to be adjusted to the ground, harmony and effect preserved, as they always ought...
Page 218 - The Landscape Gardener has most of his objects laid down to him. He must accept of the locality with its natural features, and the contour of the ground, which often prescribes a particular treatment ; and he must make it his business to conceal deformities, to elicit existing but unapparent beauties, and to adorn whatever is susceptible of improvement. It is true that in these seeming disadvantages there is also some real compensation.
Page 221 - Hence, men of taste and genius are reduced to act at random ; hence an habitual disregard of the genius loci, and a proportional degree of confidence in a set of general rules, influencing their own practice, so that they do not receive from nature the impression of what the place ought to be, but impress on nature, at a venture, the stamp, manner, or character of their own practice, as a mechanic puts the same mark on all the goods which pass through his hands.
Page 97 - a noble-looking fir tree, about sixty feet high, with a stem as straight as the Norfolk Island Pine, and pendulous branches like the weeping willow. The branches grow at first horizontally with the main stem, then describe a graceful curve upwards, drooping again at the points. From these main branches others long and slender hang down towards the ground, and give the whole tree a weeping and graceful character.