. The art of landscape gardening . Landscape gardening. no The Art of Landscape Gardeking of trees at any distance; for this reason the importance of a large tree may be injured by cutting the lower branches above this usual standard. It is obvious that the foregoing trees [see Fig. 15] are of different ages,. Fig. 15. characters, and heights, yet the browsing-line is the same in all, and furnishes a natural scale by which we at once decide on their relative heights at various distances. Let us suppose the same trees pruned or trimmed by man [as in Fig. 16], and not by cattle, and this scale w
. The art of landscape gardening . Landscape gardening. no The Art of Landscape Gardeking of trees at any distance; for this reason the importance of a large tree may be injured by cutting the lower branches above this usual standard. It is obvious that the foregoing trees [see Fig. 15] are of different ages,. Fig. 15. characters, and heights, yet the browsing-line is the same in all, and furnishes a natural scale by which we at once decide on their relative heights at various distances. Let us suppose the same trees pruned or trimmed by man [as in Fig. 16], and not by cattle, and this scale will be destroyed: thus, a full grown oak may be made to look like an orchard-tree, or by encouraging the under branches to grow lower than the usual standard, a thorn. 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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