. The art of landscape gardening . Landscape gardening. Theory and Practice ^33 I have often preferred it, especially as I know that a few trees or bushes at each end of such a line will prevent the eye from looking along its course. Sometimes it happens, from the intermixture of pro- perty or other causes, that the fence is obliged to make a very acute angle ; this may occasionally be remedied by another line of fence fitting to its greatest projection ; and as this same principle may be extended to roads, walks, or rivers, I shall explain it. The sharp elbow or projection of the fence a [Fig
. The art of landscape gardening . Landscape gardening. Theory and Practice ^33 I have often preferred it, especially as I know that a few trees or bushes at each end of such a line will prevent the eye from looking along its course. Sometimes it happens, from the intermixture of pro- perty or other causes, that the fence is obliged to make a very acute angle ; this may occasionally be remedied by another line of fence fitting to its greatest projection ; and as this same principle may be extended to roads, walks, or rivers, I shall explain it. The sharp elbow or projection of the fence a [Fig. 17] ceases to be offensive if another fence can be joined. Fig. 17 to it, as at b, and the same with the line of road or walk; the branch obviates the defect. It has been observed by the adversaries of the art that exactly the same line will serve either for a road or a river, as it may be filled with gravel or with water. This ridicule may perhaps be deserved by those engineers who are in the habit of making navigable canals only, but the nice observer will see this material difference: The banks of a natural river are never equidistant; the water in some places will spread to more than twice the breadth it does in others. This pleasing irregularity depends on the shape of the ground through which it flows : a river seldom proceeds far along the middle of a valley, but generally keeps on one side, or boldly stretches across to the other, as the high ground resists. 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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