 | Joseph Breck - 1851 - 346 pagina’s
...shrubs of low growth will be particularly useful in giving prominence to some portions of the work; provision will, therefore, have to be made, in the...the size of the plant that may be required in them. In arranging the stones, they should be laid upon their broadest or flat sides, with the outer edge... | |
 | Edward Kemp - 1911 - 386 pagina’s
...and the far more vulgar constituents of which such ornaments are often constructed about towns, are quite incompatible with any amount of rusticity. And...interesting unless well supplied with all such fittings. For ordinary practice, the materials of which a rockery, however small, is formed should lie on their... | |
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No appearance of art and no approach to the regularity or smoothness proper to works of art will be at all in place here. On the contrary, the surface of the whole cannot be too irregular or too variedly indented or prominent. An additional projection... 