. The art of landscape gardening . Landscape gardening. Theory and Practice 73 magnitude is apparently lessened by an enormous large and flourishmg ash, which rises like a single tree out ot a bank oi brushwood. When 1 was first consulted respecting Wentworth House, the lawn behind it ap- peared circumscribed, and the large trees which sur- rounded that lawn appeared depressed by four tall obelisks : these have since been removed, the stately trees have assumed their true magnitude, and the effect oi confinement is done away. I have illustrated these observations by the example of an obelisk [
. The art of landscape gardening . Landscape gardening. Theory and Practice 73 magnitude is apparently lessened by an enormous large and flourishmg ash, which rises like a single tree out ot a bank oi brushwood. When 1 was first consulted respecting Wentworth House, the lawn behind it ap- peared circumscribed, and the large trees which sur- rounded that lawn appeared depressed by four tall obelisks : these have since been removed, the stately trees have assumed their true magnitude, and the effect oi confinement is done away. I have illustrated these observations by the example of an obelisk [Fig. 4], because its height being inde-. Fig. 4. Diagram to shew the use of the human figure as a scale :cr measuring objects. terminate, it may mislead the eye as a scale ; since, according to its size and situation, the verv same design may serve for a lamp-post, a milestone in the market- place of a cit\% an ornament to a public square, or it may be raised on the summit of a hill, a monument to a nation's 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 Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818; Nolen, John, 1869-1937; American Society of Landscape Architects. Boston : Houghton Mifflin
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