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Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818 / Fragments on the theory and practice of landscape gardening: including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written; the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts
(1816)
Fragment XV. On planting single trees, pp. [65]-67
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FRAGMENT XV. ON PLANTING SINGLE TREES. TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD ERSKINE, 3c. 4c. MY LORD, IN answer to your Lordship's query, I will begin by stating it in your own words,, because it is probable you have kept no copy of them, and I have no recollection of having made the remark you record, although I fully confirm it. Yourletter says, 'I have followed your advice in the shel- ter given to my Cottage, without sacrificing my prospect; and "you said very truly, that when a man is, annoyed with stn, "wind, or dust, he puts his hand near his face, and does not depend on distant shelter." I then recommended you to plant only beech, and now you ask if there may be added a, few cedars of Lebanon, pineaster, and silver firs. This I must answer by the help of a sketch, to explain; what is so obvious when explained; that I consider it only as a proof that the most enlightened minds will sometimes hesitate on subjects which they have not studied with the eyes of a Painter and Landscape Gardener: the former sees things as theyare, the latter as they will be. Indeed I have frequently observed that, in planting a tree, few persons consider the future K
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