. The art of landscape gardening . Landscape gardening. Proper Situations for a House 29 except in very romantic situations, all the rooms on the principal floor ought to range on the same level; and that there must be a platform, or certain space of ground, with a gentle descent from the house every way. If the ground be naturally convex, or what is generally called a knoll, the size of the house must. Fig. 3. Sections to shew the manner of adapting houses to different natural shapes of ground. be adapted to the size of the knoll: this is shown by the small building a, supposed to be only one
. The art of landscape gardening . Landscape gardening. Proper Situations for a House 29 except in very romantic situations, all the rooms on the principal floor ought to range on the same level; and that there must be a platform, or certain space of ground, with a gentle descent from the house every way. If the ground be naturally convex, or what is generally called a knoll, the size of the house must. Fig. 3. Sections to shew the manner of adapting houses to different natural shapes of ground. be adapted to the size of the knoll: this is shown by the small building a, supposed to be only one hun- dred feet in front, which may be placed upon such a hillock, with a sufficient platform round it; but if a building of three hundred feet long, as b b, should be required, it is evident that the crown of the hill must be taken off, and then the shape of the ground becomes very different from its original form: for although the small house would have a sufficient plat- form, the large one will be on the brink of a very steep. 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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