. Textbook of landscape gardening, designed especially for the use of non-professional students. Landscape gardening. TEXTBOOK OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING 3. The area should be level or nearly so. Where it slopes dis- tinctly it should be brought to two or more levels by terracing. 4. The formal garden should be wholly and distinctly enclosed by buildings, walls, hedges, etc. Occasional outlooks may be pro-. Fio. 75. Plan of a Famous Formal Gabden in Massachusetts vided through or over these bounds, but they must be managed with great skill. 5. In this rectangular space no definite proportion betwe
. Textbook of landscape gardening, designed especially for the use of non-professional students. Landscape gardening. TEXTBOOK OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING 3. The area should be level or nearly so. Where it slopes dis- tinctly it should be brought to two or more levels by terracing. 4. The formal garden should be wholly and distinctly enclosed by buildings, walls, hedges, etc. Occasional outlooks may be pro-. Fio. 75. Plan of a Famous Formal Gabden in Massachusetts vided through or over these bounds, but they must be managed with great skill. 5. In this rectangular space no definite proportion between length and breadth is obligatory, but best results can usually be secured with a ratio about 7: 5 or 8: 5. 6. Each garden must have as its chief structural feature a major axis. This will nearly always be developed on the median longitudinal line. In exceptional cases the main axis may be de- veloped transversely to the greatest length of the garden. 134. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Waugh, Frank A. (Frank Albert), 1869-1943. New York, John Wiley & sons, inc. ; [etc. , etc. ]
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